INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.008","2ES","7","E27_8","<span class='v E27_8' data-id='E27_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>There is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so that only one person can go there at once. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.009","2ES","7","E27_9","<span class='v E27_9' data-id='E27_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>If this city is now given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir doesn’t pass the danger before him, how will he receive his inheritance?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.010","2ES","7","E27_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_10' data-id='E27_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>I said, “That is so, Lord.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_10' data-id='E27_10'>Then said he to me, “Even so also is Israel’s portion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.011","2ES","7","E27_11","<span class='v E27_11' data-id='E27_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>I made the world for their sakes. What is now done was decreed when Adam transgressed my statutes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.012","2ES","7","E27_12","<span class='v E27_12' data-id='E27_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Then the entrances of this world were made narrow, sorrowful, and toilsome. They are but few and evil, full of perils, and involved in great toils. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.013","2ES","7","E27_13","<span class='v E27_13' data-id='E27_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>For the entrances of the greater world are wide and safe, and produce fruit of immortality. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.014","2ES","7","E27_14","<span class='v E27_14' data-id='E27_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>So if those who live don’t enter these difficult and vain things, they can never receive those that are reserved for them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.015","2ES","7","E27_15","<span class='v E27_15' data-id='E27_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now therefore why are you disturbed, seeing you are but a corruptible man? Why are you moved, since you are mortal? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.016","2ES","7","E27_16","<span class='v E27_16' data-id='E27_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Why haven’t you considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.017","2ES","7","E27_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_17' data-id='E27_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Then I answered and said, “O sovereign Lord, behold, you have ordained in your law that the righteous will inherit these things, but that the ungodly will perish. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.018","2ES","7","E27_18","<span class='v E27_18' data-id='E27_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>The righteous therefore will suffer difficult things, and hope for easier things, but those who have done wickedly have suffered the difficult things, and yet will not see the easier things.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.019","2ES","7","E27_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_19' data-id='E27_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>He said to me, “You are not a judge above God, neither do you have more understanding than the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.020","2ES","7","E27_20","<span class='v E27_20' data-id='E27_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Yes, let many perish who now live, rather than that the law of God which is set before them be despised. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.021","2ES","7","E27_21","<span class='v E27_21' data-id='E27_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For God strictly commanded those who came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.022","2ES","7","E27_22","<span class='v E27_22' data-id='E27_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Nevertheless, they weren’t obedient to him, but spoke against him and imagined for themselves vain things. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.023","2ES","7","E27_23","<span class='v E27_23' data-id='E27_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>They made cunning plans of wickedness, and said moreover of the Most High that he doesn’t exist, and they didn’t know his ways. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.024","2ES","7","E27_24","<span class='v E27_24' data-id='E27_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>They despised his law and denied his covenants. They haven’t been faithful to his statutes, and haven’t performed his works. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.025","2ES","7","E27_25","<span class='v E27_25' data-id='E27_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.026","2ES","7","E27_26","<span class='v E27_26' data-id='E27_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>For behold, the time will come, and it will be, when these signs of which I told you before will come to pass, that the bride will appear, even the city coming forth, and she will be seen who now is withdrawn from the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.027","2ES","7","E27_27","<span class='v E27_27' data-id='E27_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Whoever is delivered from the foretold evils will see my wonders. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.028","2ES","7","E27_28","<span class='v E27_28' data-id='E27_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>For my son Jesus will be revealed with those who are with him, and those who remain will rejoice four hundred years. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.029","2ES","7","E27_29","<span class='v E27_29' data-id='E27_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>After these years my son Christ<span class='note' id='footnote-1316'><a href='#note-1316' class='key'>†</a></span> will die, along with all of those who have the breath of life<span class='note' id='footnote-1317'><a href='#note-1317' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.030","2ES","7","E27_30","<span class='v E27_30' data-id='E27_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Then the world will be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the first beginning, so that no human will remain. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.031","2ES","7","E27_31","<span class='v E27_31' data-id='E27_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>After seven days the world that is not yet awake will be raised up, and what is corruptible will die. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.032","2ES","7","E27_32","<span class='v E27_32' data-id='E27_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>The earth will restore those who are asleep in it, and the dust those who dwell in it in silence, and the <span class='note' id='footnote-1318'><a href='#note-1318' class='key'>§</a></span>secret places will deliver those souls that were committed to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.033","2ES","7","E27_33","<span class='v E27_33' data-id='E27_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>The Most High will be revealed on the judgement seat, <span class='note' id='footnote-1319'><a href='#note-1319' class='key'>*</a></span> and compassion will pass away, and patience will be withdrawn. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.034","2ES","7","E27_34","<span class='v E27_34' data-id='E27_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Only judgement will remain. Truth will stand. Faith will grow strong. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.035","2ES","7","E27_35","<span class='v E27_35' data-id='E27_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Recompense will follow. The reward will be shown. Good deeds will awake, and wicked deeds won’t sleep.<span class='note' id='footnote-1320'><a href='#note-1320' class='key'>†</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.036","2ES","7","E27_36","<span class='v E27_36' data-id='E27_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>The <span class='note' id='footnote-1321'><a href='#note-1321' class='key'>‡</a></span>pit of torment will appear, and near it will be the place of rest. The furnace of hell<span class='note' id='footnote-1322'><a href='#note-1322' class='key'>§</a></span> will be shown, and near it the paradise of delight. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.037","2ES","7","E27_37","<span class='v E27_37' data-id='E27_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Then the Most High will say to the nations that are raised from the dead, ‘Look and understand whom you have denied, whom you haven’t served, whose commandments you have despised. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.038","2ES","7","E27_38","<span class='v E27_38' data-id='E27_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Look on this side and on that. Here is delight and rest, and there fire and torments.’ Thus <span class='note' id='footnote-1323'><a href='#note-1323' class='key'>*</a></span>he will speak to them in the day of judgement. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.039","2ES","7","E27_39","<span class='v E27_39' data-id='E27_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>This is a day that has neither sun, nor moon, nor stars, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.040","2ES","7","E27_40","<span class='v E27_40' data-id='E27_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning, neither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor morning, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.041","2ES","7","E27_41","<span class='v E27_41' data-id='E27_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor<span class='note' id='footnote-1324'><a href='#note-1324' class='key'>†</a></span> winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.042","2ES","7","E27_42","<span class='v E27_42' data-id='E27_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, except only the splendour of the glory of the Most High, by which all will see the things that are set before them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.043","2ES","7","E27_43","<span class='v E27_43' data-id='E27_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>It will endure as though it were a week of years. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.044","2ES","7","E27_44","<span class='v E27_44' data-id='E27_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>This is my judgement and its prescribed order; but I have only shown these things to you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.045","2ES","7","E27_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_45' data-id='E27_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>I answered, “I said then, O Lord, and I say now: Blessed are those who are now alive and keep your commandments! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.046","2ES","7","E27_46","<span class='v E27_46' data-id='E27_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>But what about those for whom I prayed? For who is there of those who are alive who has not sinned, and who of the children of men hasn’t transgressed your covenant? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.047","2ES","7","E27_47","<span class='v E27_47' data-id='E27_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>Now I see that the world to come will bring delight to few, but torments to many. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.048","2ES","7","E27_48","<span class='v E27_48' data-id='E27_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these commandments and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death. It has shown us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life—and that, not a few only, but nearly all who have been created.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.049","2ES","7","E27_49","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_49' data-id='E27_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>He answered me, “Listen to me, and I will instruct you. I will admonish you yet again. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.050","2ES","7","E27_50","<span class='v E27_50' data-id='E27_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>For this reason, the Most High has not made one world, but two. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.051","2ES","7","E27_51","<span class='v E27_51' data-id='E27_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>For because you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the explanation. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.052","2ES","7","E27_52","<span class='v E27_52' data-id='E27_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>If you have just a few precious stones, will you add them to lead and clay?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.053","2ES","7","E27_53","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_53' data-id='E27_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>I said, “Lord, how could that be?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.054","2ES","7","E27_54","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_54' data-id='E27_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>He said to me, “Not only that, but ask the earth, and she will tell you. Defer to her, and she will declare it to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.055","2ES","7","E27_55","<span class='v E27_55' data-id='E27_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>Say to her, ‘You produce gold, silver, and brass, and also iron, lead, and clay; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.056","2ES","7","E27_56","<span class='v E27_56' data-id='E27_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, and lead than iron, and clay than lead.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.057","2ES","7","E27_57","<span class='v E27_57' data-id='E27_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Judge therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.058","2ES","7","E27_58","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_58' data-id='E27_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>I said, “O sovereign Lord, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.059","2ES","7","E27_59","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_59' data-id='E27_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>He answered me, “Weigh within yourself the things that you have thought, for he who has what is hard to get rejoices over him who has what is plentiful. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.060","2ES","7","E27_60","<span class='v E27_60' data-id='E27_60'><span class='v-num v-60'>60&#160;</span>So also is the judgement which I have promised; for I will rejoice over the few that will be saved, because these are those who have made my glory to prevail now, and through them, my name is now honoured. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.061","2ES","7","E27_61","<span class='v E27_61' data-id='E27_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>I won’t grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like mist, and have become like flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are extinguished.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.062","2ES","7","E27_62","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_62' data-id='E27_62'><span class='v-num v-62'>62&#160;</span>I answered, “O earth, why have you produced, if the mind is made out of dust, like all other created things? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.063","2ES","7","E27_63","<span class='v E27_63' data-id='E27_63'><span class='v-num v-63'>63&#160;</span>For it would have been better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made from it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.064","2ES","7","E27_64","<span class='v E27_64' data-id='E27_64'><span class='v-num v-64'>64&#160;</span>But now the mind grows with us, and because of this we are tormented, because we perish and we know it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.065","2ES","7","E27_65","<span class='v E27_65' data-id='E27_65'><span class='v-num v-65'>65&#160;</span>Let the race of men lament and the animals of the field be glad. Let all who are born lament, but let the four-footed animals and the livestock rejoice. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.066","2ES","7","E27_66","<span class='v E27_66' data-id='E27_66'><span class='v-num v-66'>66&#160;</span>For it is far better with them than with us; for they don’t look forward to judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.067","2ES","7","E27_67","<span class='v E27_67' data-id='E27_67'><span class='v-num v-67'>67&#160;</span>For what does it profit us, that we will be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.068","2ES","7","E27_68","<span class='v E27_68' data-id='E27_68'><span class='v-num v-68'>68&#160;</span>For all who are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with transgressions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.069","2ES","7","E27_69","<span class='v E27_69' data-id='E27_69'><span class='v-num v-69'>69&#160;</span>If after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it would have been better for us.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.070","2ES","7","E27_70","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_70' data-id='E27_70'><span class='v-num v-70'>70&#160;</span>He answered me, “When the Most High made the world and Adam and all those who came from him, he first prepared the judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.071","2ES","7","E27_71","<span class='v E27_71' data-id='E27_71'><span class='v-num v-71'>71&#160;</span>Now understand from your own words, for you have said that the mind grows with us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.072","2ES","7","E27_72","<span class='v E27_72' data-id='E27_72'><span class='v-num v-72'>72&#160;</span>They therefore who dwell on the earth will be tormented for this reason, that having understanding they have committed iniquity, and receiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law they dealt unfaithfully with that which they received. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.073","2ES","7","E27_73","<span class='v E27_73' data-id='E27_73'><span class='v-num v-73'>73&#160;</span>What then will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.074","2ES","7","E27_74","<span class='v E27_74' data-id='E27_74'><span class='v-num v-74'>74&#160;</span>For how long a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.075","2ES","7","E27_75","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_75' data-id='E27_75'><span class='v-num v-75'>75&#160;</span>I answered, “If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we will be kept in rest until those times come, in which you renew the creation, or whether we will be tormented immediately.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.076","2ES","7","E27_76","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_76' data-id='E27_76'><span class='v-num v-76'>76&#160;</span>He answered me, “I will show you this also; but don’t join yourself with those who are scorners, nor count yourself with those who are tormented. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.077","2ES","7","E27_77","<span class='v E27_77' data-id='E27_77'><span class='v-num v-77'>77&#160;</span>For you have a treasure of works laid up with the Most High, but it won’t be shown you until the last times. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.078","2ES","7","E27_78","<span class='v E27_78' data-id='E27_78'><span class='v-num v-78'>78&#160;</span>For concerning death the teaching is: When the decisive sentence has gone out from the Most High that a man shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.079","2ES","7","E27_79","<span class='v E27_79' data-id='E27_79'><span class='v-num v-79'>79&#160;</span>And if it is one of those who have been scorners and have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his law, and who hate those who fear God, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.080","2ES","7","E27_80","<span class='v E27_80' data-id='E27_80'><span class='v-num v-80'>80&#160;</span>these spirits won’t enter into habitations, but will wander and be in torments immediately, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.081","2ES","7","E27_81","<span class='v E27_81' data-id='E27_81'><span class='v-num v-81'>81&#160;</span>The first way, because they have despised the law of the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.082","2ES","7","E27_82","<span class='v E27_82' data-id='E27_82'><span class='v-num v-82'>82&#160;</span>The second way, because they can’t now make a good repentance that they may live. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.083","2ES","7","E27_83","<span class='v E27_83' data-id='E27_83'><span class='v-num v-83'>83&#160;</span>The third way, they will see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.084","2ES","7","E27_84","<span class='v E27_84' data-id='E27_84'><span class='v-num v-84'>84&#160;</span>The fourth way, they will consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.085","2ES","7","E27_85","<span class='v E27_85' data-id='E27_85'><span class='v-num v-85'>85&#160;</span>The fifth way, they will see the dwelling places of the others guarded by angels, with great quietness. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.086","2ES","7","E27_86","<span class='v E27_86' data-id='E27_86'><span class='v-num v-86'>86&#160;</span>The sixth way, they will see how immediately some of them will pass into torment. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.087","2ES","7","E27_87","<span class='v E27_87' data-id='E27_87'><span class='v-num v-87'>87&#160;</span>The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they will pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and will be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they will be judged in the last times. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.088","2ES","7","E27_88","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_88' data-id='E27_88'><span class='v-num v-88'>88&#160;</span>“Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they will be separated from their mortal body. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.089","2ES","7","E27_89","<span class='v E27_89' data-id='E27_89'><span class='v-num v-89'>89&#160;</span>In the time that they lived in it, they painfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.090","2ES","7","E27_90","<span class='v E27_90' data-id='E27_90'><span class='v-num v-90'>90&#160;</span>Therefore this is the teaching concerning them: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.091","2ES","7","E27_91","<span class='v E27_91' data-id='E27_91'><span class='v-num v-91'>91&#160;</span>First of all they will see with great joy the glory of him who takes them up, for they will have rest in seven orders. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.092","2ES","7","E27_92","<span class='v E27_92' data-id='E27_92'><span class='v-num v-92'>92&#160;</span>The first order, because they have laboured with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.093","2ES","7","E27_93","<span class='v E27_93' data-id='E27_93'><span class='v-num v-93'>93&#160;</span>The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.094","2ES","7","E27_94","<span class='v E27_94' data-id='E27_94'><span class='v-num v-94'>94&#160;</span>The third order, they see the testimony which he who fashioned them gives concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law which was given them in trust. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.095","2ES","7","E27_95","<span class='v E27_95' data-id='E27_95'><span class='v-num v-95'>95&#160;</span>The fourth order, they understand the rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with great quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaits them in the last days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.096","2ES","7","E27_96","<span class='v E27_96' data-id='E27_96'><span class='v-num v-96'>96&#160;</span>The fifth order, they rejoice that they have now escaped from that which is corruptible, and that they will inherit that which is to come, while they see in addition the difficulty and the pain from which they have been delivered, and the spacious liberty which they will receive with joy and immortality. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.097","2ES","7","E27_97","<span class='v E27_97' data-id='E27_97'><span class='v-num v-97'>97&#160;</span>The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their face will shine like the sun, and how they will be made like the light of the stars, being incorruptible from then on. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.098","2ES","7","E27_98","<span class='v E27_98' data-id='E27_98'><span class='v-num v-98'>98&#160;</span>The seventh order, which is greater than all the previously mentioned orders, because they will rejoice with confidence, and because they will be bold without confusion, and will be glad without fear, for they hurry to see the face of him whom in their lifetime they served, and from whom they will receive their reward in glory. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.099","2ES","7","E27_99","<span class='v E27_99' data-id='E27_99'><span class='v-num v-99'>99&#160;</span>This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth is announced to them. Previously mentioned are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed will suffer from after this.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.100","2ES","7","E27_100","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_100' data-id='E27_100'><span class='v-num v-100'>100&#160;</span>I answered, “Will time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see what you have described to me?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.101","2ES","7","E27_101","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_101' data-id='E27_101'><span class='v-num v-101'>101&#160;</span>He said, “Their freedom will be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things you have been told, and afterwards they will be gathered together in their habitations.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.102","2ES","7","E27_102","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_102' data-id='E27_102'><span class='v-num v-102'>102&#160;</span>I answered, “If I have found favour in your sight, show further to me your servant whether in the day of judgement the just will be able to intercede for the ungodly or to entreat the Most High for them, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.103","2ES","7","E27_103","<span class='v E27_103' data-id='E27_103'><span class='v-num v-103'>103&#160;</span>whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for those who are most dear.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.104","2ES","7","E27_104","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_104' data-id='E27_104'><span class='v-num v-104'>104&#160;</span>He answered me, “Since you have found favour in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgement is<span class='note' id='footnote-1325'><a href='#note-1325' class='key'>‡</a></span> a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth. Even as now a father doesn’t send his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a friend him that is most dear, that in his place he may understand, or sleep, or eat, or be healed, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.105","2ES","7","E27_105","<span class='v E27_105' data-id='E27_105'><span class='v-num v-105'>105&#160;</span>so no one will ever pray for another in that day, neither will one lay a burden on another, for then everyone will each bear his own righteousness or unrighteousness.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.106","2ES","7","E27_106","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_106' data-id='E27_106'><span class='v-num v-106'>106&#160;</span>I answered, “How do we now find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for the ancestors who sinned in the wilderness, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.107","2ES","7","E27_107","<span class='v E27_107' data-id='E27_107'><span class='v-num v-107'>107&#160;</span>and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of <span class='note' id='footnote-1326'><a href='#note-1326' class='key'>✡</a></span>Achan, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.108","2ES","7","E27_108","<span class='v E27_108' data-id='E27_108'><span class='v-num v-108'>108&#160;</span>and Samuel <span class='note' id='footnote-1327'><a href='#note-1327' class='key'>§</a></span>in the days of Saul, and David for the plague, and Solomon for those who would worship in the sanctuary, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.109","2ES","7","E27_109","<span class='v E27_109' data-id='E27_109'><span class='v-num v-109'>109&#160;</span>and Elijah for those that received rain, and for the dead, that he might live, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.110","2ES","7","E27_110","<span class='v E27_110' data-id='E27_110'><span class='v-num v-110'>110&#160;</span>and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many others prayed for many? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.111","2ES","7","E27_111","<span class='v E27_111' data-id='E27_111'><span class='v-num v-111'>111&#160;</span>If therefore now, when corruption has grown and unrighteousness increased, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, why will it not be so then also?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.112","2ES","7","E27_112","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_112' data-id='E27_112'><span class='v-num v-112'>112&#160;</span>He answered me, “This present world is not the end. The full glory doesn’t remain in it. Therefore those who were able prayed for the weak. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.113","2ES","7","E27_113","<span class='v E27_113' data-id='E27_113'><span class='v-num v-113'>113&#160;</span>But the day of judgement will be the end of this age, and the beginning of the immortality to come, in which corruption has passed away, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.114","2ES","7","E27_114","<span class='v E27_114' data-id='E27_114'><span class='v-num v-114'>114&#160;</span>intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off, but righteousness has grown, and truth has sprung up. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.115","2ES","7","E27_115","<span class='v E27_115' data-id='E27_115'><span class='v-num v-115'>115&#160;</span>Then no one will be able to have mercy on him who is condemned in judgement, nor to harm someone who is victorious.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.116","2ES","7","E27_116","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_116' data-id='E27_116'><span class='v-num v-116'>116&#160;</span>I answered then, “This is my first and last saying, that it would have been better if the earth had not produced Adam, or else, when it had produced him, to have restrained him from sinning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.117","2ES","7","E27_117","<span class='v E27_117' data-id='E27_117'><span class='v-num v-117'>117&#160;</span>For what profit is it for all who are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.118","2ES","7","E27_118","<span class='v E27_118' data-id='E27_118'><span class='v-num v-118'>118&#160;</span>O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the evil hasn’t fallen on you alone, but on all of us who come from you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.119","2ES","7","E27_119","<span class='v E27_119' data-id='E27_119'><span class='v-num v-119'>119&#160;</span>For what profit is it to us, if an immortal time is promised to us, but we have done deeds that bring death? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.120","2ES","7","E27_120","<span class='v E27_120' data-id='E27_120'><span class='v-num v-120'>120&#160;</span>And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, but we have most miserably failed? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.121","2ES","7","E27_121","<span class='v E27_121' data-id='E27_121'><span class='v-num v-121'>121&#160;</span>And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, but we have lived wickedly? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.122","2ES","7","E27_122","<span class='v E27_122' data-id='E27_122'><span class='v-num v-122'>122&#160;</span>And that the glory of the Most High will defend those who have led a pure life, but we have walked in the most wicked ways of all? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.123","2ES","7","E27_123","<span class='v E27_123' data-id='E27_123'><span class='v-num v-123'>123&#160;</span>And that a paradise will be revealed, whose fruit endures without decay, in which is abundance and healing, but we won’t enter into it, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.124","2ES","7","E27_124","<span class='v E27_124' data-id='E27_124'><span class='v-num v-124'>124&#160;</span>for we have lived in perverse ways? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.125","2ES","7","E27_125","<span class='v E27_125' data-id='E27_125'><span class='v-num v-125'>125&#160;</span>And that the faces of those who have practised self-control will shine more than the stars, but our faces will be blacker than darkness? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.126","2ES","7","E27_126","<span class='v E27_126' data-id='E27_126'><span class='v-num v-126'>126&#160;</span>For while we lived and committed iniquity, we didn’t consider what we would have to suffer after death.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.127","2ES","7","E27_127","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_127' data-id='E27_127'><span class='v-num v-127'>127&#160;</span>Then he answered, “This is the significance of the battle which humans born on the earth will fight: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.128","2ES","7","E27_128","<span class='v E27_128' data-id='E27_128'><span class='v-num v-128'>128&#160;</span>if they are overcome, they will suffer as you have said, but if they get the victory, they will receive the thing that I say. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.129","2ES","7","E27_129","<span class='v E27_129' data-id='E27_129'><span class='v-num v-129'>129&#160;</span>For this is the way that Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, ‘Choose life, that you may live!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.130","2ES","7","E27_130","<span class='v E27_130' data-id='E27_130'><span class='v-num v-130'>130&#160;</span>Nevertheless they didn’t believe him or the prophets after him, not even me, who have spoken to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.131","2ES","7","E27_131","<span class='v E27_131' data-id='E27_131'><span class='v-num v-131'>131&#160;</span>Therefore there won’t be such heaviness in their destruction, as there will be joy over those who are assured of salvation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.132","2ES","7","E27_132","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_132' data-id='E27_132'><span class='v-num v-132'>132&#160;</span>Then I answered, “I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon those who have not yet come into the world; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.133","2ES","7","E27_133","<span class='v E27_133' data-id='E27_133'><span class='v-num v-133'>133&#160;</span>and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those who turn to his law; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.134","2ES","7","E27_134","<span class='v E27_134' data-id='E27_134'><span class='v-num v-134'>134&#160;</span>and patient, in that he is patient with those who have sinned, since they are his creatures; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.135","2ES","7","E27_135","<span class='v E27_135' data-id='E27_135'><span class='v-num v-135'>135&#160;</span>and bountiful, in that he is ready to give rather than to take away; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.136","2ES","7","E27_136","<span class='v E27_136' data-id='E27_136'><span class='v-num v-136'>136&#160;</span>and very merciful, in that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and who are past, and also to those who are to come— </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.137","2ES","7","E27_137","<span class='v E27_137' data-id='E27_137'><span class='v-num v-137'>137&#160;</span>for if he wasn’t merciful, the world wouldn’t continue with those who dwell in it— </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.138","2ES","7","E27_138","<span class='v E27_138' data-id='E27_138'><span class='v-num v-138'>138&#160;</span>and one who forgives, for if he didn’t forgive out of his goodness, that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not even one ten thousandth part of mankind would remain living; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.139","2ES","7","E27_139","<span class='v E27_139' data-id='E27_139'><span class='v-num v-139'>139&#160;</span>and a judge, for if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of sins, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.140","2ES","7","E27_140","<span class='v E27_140' data-id='E27_140'><span class='v-num v-140'>140&#160;</span>there would perhaps be very few left of an innumerable multitude.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.001","2ES","8","E28_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_1' data-id='E28_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>He answered me, “The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.002","2ES","8","E28_2","<span class='v E28_2' data-id='E28_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Now I will tell you a parable, Esdras. Just as when you ask the earth, it will say to you that it gives very much clay from which earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold comes from. Even so is the course of the present world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.003","2ES","8","E28_3","<span class='v E28_3' data-id='E28_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Many have been created, but few will be saved.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.004","2ES","8","E28_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_4' data-id='E28_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>I answered, “Drink your fill of understanding then, O my soul, and let my heart devour wisdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.005","2ES","8","E28_5","<span class='v E28_5' data-id='E28_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For you <span class='note' id='footnote-1328'><a href='#note-1328' class='key'>*</a></span>have come here apart from your will, and depart against your will, for you have only been given a short time to live. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.006","2ES","8","E28_6","<span class='v E28_6' data-id='E28_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>O Lord over us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us seed for our heart and cultivation for our understanding, that fruit may grow from it, by which everyone who is corrupt, who bears the <span class='note' id='footnote-1329'><a href='#note-1329' class='key'>†</a></span>likeness of a man, may live. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.007","2ES","8","E28_7","<span class='v E28_7' data-id='E28_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>For you alone exist, and we all one workmanship of your hands, just as you have said. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.008","2ES","8","E28_8","<span class='v E28_8' data-id='E28_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and your workmanship endures nine months as your creation which is created in it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.009","2ES","8","E28_9","<span class='v E28_9' data-id='E28_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>But that which keeps and that which is kept will both be kept <span class='note' id='footnote-1330'><a href='#note-1330' class='key'>‡</a></span>by your keeping. When the womb gives up again what has grown in it, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.010","2ES","8","E28_10","<span class='v E28_10' data-id='E28_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.011","2ES","8","E28_11","<span class='v E28_11' data-id='E28_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>that the body that is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you guide it in your mercy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.012","2ES","8","E28_12","<span class='v E28_12' data-id='E28_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Yes, you have brought it up in your righteousness, nurtured it in your law, and corrected it with your judgement. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.013","2ES","8","E28_13","<span class='v E28_13' data-id='E28_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>You put it to death as your creation, and make it live as your work. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.014","2ES","8","E28_14","<span class='v E28_14' data-id='E28_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>If therefore you <span class='note' id='footnote-1331'><a href='#note-1331' class='key'>§</a></span>lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.015","2ES","8","E28_15","<span class='v E28_15' data-id='E28_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now therefore I will speak. About man in general, you know best, but about your people for whose sake I am sorry, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.017","2ES","8","E28_17","<span class='v E28_17' data-id='E28_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>therefore I will begin to pray before you for myself and for them; for I see the failings of us who dwell in the land; </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.019","2ES","8","E28_19","<span class='v E28_19' data-id='E28_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_19' data-id='E28_19'>The beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up. He said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.020","2ES","8","E28_20","<span class='v E28_20' data-id='E28_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“O Lord, you who remain forever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.021","2ES","8","E28_21","<span class='v E28_21' data-id='E28_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>whose throne is beyond measure, whose glory is beyond comprehension, before whom the army of angels stand with trembling, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.022","2ES","8","E28_22","<span class='v E28_22' data-id='E28_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1332'><a href='#note-1332' class='key'>*</a></span> at whose bidding they are changed to wind and fire, whose word is sure, and sayings constant, whose ordinance is strong, and commandment fearful, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.023","2ES","8","E28_23","<span class='v E28_23' data-id='E28_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>whose look dries up the depths, and whose indignation makes the mountains to melt away, and whose truth bears witness— </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.024","2ES","8","E28_24","<span class='v E28_24' data-id='E28_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>hear, O Lord, the prayer of your servant, and give ear to the petition of your handiwork. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.025","2ES","8","E28_25","<span class='v E28_25' data-id='E28_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Attend to my words, for as long as I live, I will speak, and as long as I have understanding, I will answer. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.026","2ES","8","E28_26","<span class='v E28_26' data-id='E28_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Don’t look at the sins of your people, but on those who have served you in truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.027","2ES","8","E28_27","<span class='v E28_27' data-id='E28_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Don’t regard the doings of those who act wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.028","2ES","8","E28_28","<span class='v E28_28' data-id='E28_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Don’t think about those who have lived wickedly before you, but remember those who have willingly known your fear. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.029","2ES","8","E28_29","<span class='v E28_29' data-id='E28_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Let it not be your will to destroy those who have lived like cattle, but look at those who have <span class='note' id='footnote-1333'><a href='#note-1333' class='key'>†</a></span>clearly taught your law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.030","2ES","8","E28_30","<span class='v E28_30' data-id='E28_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Don’t be indignant at those who are deemed worse than animals, but love those who have always put their trust in your glory. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.031","2ES","8","E28_31","<span class='v E28_31' data-id='E28_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For we and our fathers have <span class='note' id='footnote-1334'><a href='#note-1334' class='key'>‡</a></span>passed our lives in <span class='note' id='footnote-1335'><a href='#note-1335' class='key'>§</a></span>ways that bring death, but you are called merciful because of us sinners. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.032","2ES","8","E28_32","<span class='v E28_32' data-id='E28_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>For if you have a desire to have mercy upon us who have no works of righteousness, then you will be called merciful. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.033","2ES","8","E28_33","<span class='v E28_33' data-id='E28_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>For the just, which have many good works laid up with you, will be rewarded for their own deeds. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.034","2ES","8","E28_34","<span class='v E28_34' data-id='E28_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? Or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter towards it? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.035","2ES","8","E28_35","<span class='v E28_35' data-id='E28_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For in truth, there is no man amongst those who are born who has not done wickedly, and amongst those who have lived, there is none which have not done wrong. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.036","2ES","8","E28_36","<span class='v E28_36' data-id='E28_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and your goodness will be declared, if you are merciful to those who have no store of good works.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.037","2ES","8","E28_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_37' data-id='E28_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Then he answered me, “Some things you have spoken rightly, and it will happen according to your words. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.038","2ES","8","E28_38","<span class='v E28_38' data-id='E28_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>For indeed I will not think about the fashioning of those who have sinned, or about their death, their judgement, or their destruction; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.039","2ES","8","E28_39","<span class='v E28_39' data-id='E28_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>but I will rejoice over the creation of the righteous and their pilgrimage, their salvation, and the reward that they will have. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.040","2ES","8","E28_40","<span class='v E28_40' data-id='E28_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>Therefore as I have spoken, so it will be. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.041","2ES","8","E28_41","<span class='v E28_41' data-id='E28_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>For as the farmer sows many seeds in the ground, and plants many trees, and yet not all that is sown will <span class='note' id='footnote-1336'><a href='#note-1336' class='key'>*</a></span>come up in due season, neither will all that is planted take root, even so those who are sown in the world will not all be saved.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.042","2ES","8","E28_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_42' data-id='E28_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>Then I answered, “If I have found favour, let me speak before you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.043","2ES","8","E28_43","<span class='v E28_43' data-id='E28_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>If the farmer’s seed doesn’t come up because it hasn’t received your rain in due season, or if it is ruined by too much rain and perishes, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.044","2ES","8","E28_44","<span class='v E28_44' data-id='E28_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>likewise man, who is formed with your hands and is called your own image, because he is made like you, for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like the farmer’s seed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.045","2ES","8","E28_45","<span class='v E28_45' data-id='E28_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Don’t be angry with us, but spare your people and have mercy upon your inheritance, for you have mercy upon your own creation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.046","2ES","8","E28_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_46' data-id='E28_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>Then he answered me, “Things present are for those who live now, and things to come for those who will live hereafter. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.047","2ES","8","E28_47","<span class='v E28_47' data-id='E28_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>For you come far short of being able to love my creature more than I. But you have compared yourself to the unrighteous. Don’t do that! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.048","2ES","8","E28_48","<span class='v E28_48' data-id='E28_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>Yet in this will you be admirable to the Most High, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.049","2ES","8","E28_49","<span class='v E28_49' data-id='E28_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>in that you have humbled yourself, as it becomes you, and have not judged yourself amongst the righteous, so as to be much glorified. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.050","2ES","8","E28_50","<span class='v E28_50' data-id='E28_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>For many grievous miseries will fall on those who dwell in the world in the last times, because they have walked in great pride. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.051","2ES","8","E28_51","<span class='v E28_51' data-id='E28_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>But understand for yourself, and for those who enquire concerning the glory of those like you, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.052","2ES","8","E28_52","<span class='v E28_52' data-id='E28_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>because paradise is opened to you. The tree of life is planted. The time to come is prepared. Plenteousness is made ready. A city is built. Rest is <span class='note' id='footnote-1337'><a href='#note-1337' class='key'>†</a></span>allowed. Goodness is perfected, and wisdom is perfected beforehand. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.053","2ES","8","E28_53","<span class='v E28_53' data-id='E28_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>The root of evil is sealed up from you. Weakness is done away from you, and <span class='note' id='footnote-1338'><a href='#note-1338' class='key'>‡</a></span>death is hidden. Hell and corruption have fled into forgetfulness. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.054","2ES","8","E28_54","<span class='v E28_54' data-id='E28_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Sorrows have passed away, and in the end, the treasure of immortality is shown. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.055","2ES","8","E28_55","<span class='v E28_55' data-id='E28_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>Therefore ask no more questions concerning the multitude of those who perish. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.056","2ES","8","E28_56","<span class='v E28_56' data-id='E28_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, scorned his law, and forsook his ways. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.057","2ES","8","E28_57","<span class='v E28_57' data-id='E28_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Moreover they have trodden down his righteous, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.058","2ES","8","E28_58","<span class='v E28_58' data-id='E28_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>and said in their heart that there is no God—even knowing that they must die. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.059","2ES","8","E28_59","<span class='v E28_59' data-id='E28_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.060","2ES","8","E28_60","<span class='v E28_60' data-id='E28_60'><span class='v-num v-60'>60&#160;</span>but those who are created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them, and were unthankful to him who prepared life for them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.061","2ES","8","E28_61","<span class='v E28_61' data-id='E28_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>Therefore my judgement is now at hand, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.062","2ES","8","E28_62","<span class='v E28_62' data-id='E28_62'><span class='v-num v-62'>62&#160;</span>which I have not shown to all men, but to you, and a few like you.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E28_62' data-id='E28_62'>Then I answered, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.008.063","2ES","8","E28_63","<span class='v E28_63' data-id='E28_63'><span class='v-num v-63'>63&#160;</span>“Behold, O Lord, now you have shown me the multitude of the wonders which you will do in the last times, but you haven’t shown me when.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.001","2ES","9","E29_1","<div class='c'>9</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_1' data-id='E29_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>He answered me, “Measure diligently within yourself. When you see that a certain part of the signs are past, which have been told you beforehand, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.002","2ES","9","E29_2","<span class='v E29_2' data-id='E29_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>then will you understand that it is the very time in which the Most High will visit the world which was made by him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.003","2ES","9","E29_3","<span class='v E29_3' data-id='E29_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>When earthquakes, tumult of peoples, plans of nations, wavering of leaders, and confusion of princes are seen in the world, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.004","2ES","9","E29_4","<span class='v E29_4' data-id='E29_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>then will you understand that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were of old, from the beginning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.005","2ES","9","E29_5","<span class='v E29_5' data-id='E29_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For just as with everything that is made in the world, the beginning <span class='note' id='footnote-1339'><a href='#note-1339' class='key'>*</a></span>is evident and the end manifest, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.006","2ES","9","E29_6","<span class='v E29_6' data-id='E29_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>so also are the times of the Most High: the beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in effects and signs. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.007","2ES","9","E29_7","<span class='v E29_7' data-id='E29_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Everyone who will be saved, and will be able to escape by his works, or by faith by which they have believed, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.008","2ES","9","E29_8","<span class='v E29_8' data-id='E29_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>will be preserved from the said perils, and will see my salvation in my land and within my borders, which I have sanctified for myself from the beginning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.009","2ES","9","E29_9","<span class='v E29_9' data-id='E29_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Then those who now have abused my ways will be amazed. Those who have cast them away despitefully will live in torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.010","2ES","9","E29_10","<span class='v E29_10' data-id='E29_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.011","2ES","9","E29_11","<span class='v E29_11' data-id='E29_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and as many as have scorned my law, while they still had liberty and when an opportunity to repent was open to them, didn’t understand, but despised <span class='note' id='footnote-1340'><a href='#note-1340' class='key'>†</a></span> it, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.012","2ES","9","E29_12","<span class='v E29_12' data-id='E29_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>must know <span class='note' id='footnote-1341'><a href='#note-1341' class='key'>‡</a></span>it in torment after death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.013","2ES","9","E29_13","<span class='v E29_13' data-id='E29_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Therefore don’t be curious any longer how the ungodly will be punished, but enquire how the righteous will be saved, <span class='note' id='footnote-1342'><a href='#note-1342' class='key'>§</a></span>those who the world belongs to, and for whom the world was created.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.014","2ES","9","E29_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_14' data-id='E29_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>I answered, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.015","2ES","9","E29_15","<span class='v E29_15' data-id='E29_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“I have said before, and now speak, and will say it again hereafter, that there are more of those who perish than of those who will be saved, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.017","2ES","9","E29_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_17' data-id='E29_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>He answered me, “Just as the field is, so also the seed. As the flowers are, so are the colours. As the work is, so also is the <span class='note' id='footnote-1343'><a href='#note-1343' class='key'>*</a></span>judgement on it. As is the farmer, so also is his threshing floor. For there was a time in the world </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.018","2ES","9","E29_18","<span class='v E29_18' data-id='E29_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in. Then no one spoke against me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.019","2ES","9","E29_19","<span class='v E29_19' data-id='E29_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>for <span class='note' id='footnote-1344'><a href='#note-1344' class='key'>†</a></span>no one existed. But now those who are created in this world that is prepared, both <span class='note' id='footnote-1345'><a href='#note-1345' class='key'>‡</a></span>with a table that doesn’t fail and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their ways. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.020","2ES","9","E29_20","<span class='v E29_20' data-id='E29_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So I considered my world, and behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.021","2ES","9","E29_21","<span class='v E29_21' data-id='E29_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>I saw and spared them, but not greatly, and saved myself a grape out of a cluster, and a plant out of <span class='note' id='footnote-1346'><a href='#note-1346' class='key'>§</a></span>a great forest. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.022","2ES","9","E29_22","<span class='v E29_22' data-id='E29_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Let the multitude perish then, which were born in vain. Let my grape be saved, and my plant, for I have made them perfect with great labour. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.023","2ES","9","E29_23","<span class='v E29_23' data-id='E29_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Nevertheless, if you will wait seven more days—however don’t fast in them, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.024","2ES","9","E29_24","<span class='v E29_24' data-id='E29_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>but go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field, and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but shall eat flowers only— </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.025","2ES","9","E29_25","<span class='v E29_25' data-id='E29_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.026","2ES","9","E29_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_26' data-id='E29_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So I went my way, just as he commanded me, into the field which is called <span class='note' id='footnote-1347'><a href='#note-1347' class='key'>*</a></span>Ardat. There I sat amongst the flowers, and ate of the herbs of the field, and this food satisfied me. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.028","2ES","9","E29_28","<span class='v E29_28' data-id='E29_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>My mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Lord Most High, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.029","2ES","9","E29_29","<span class='v E29_29' data-id='E29_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“O Lord, you showed yourself amongst us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treads and that bears no fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.030","2ES","9","E29_30","<span class='v E29_30' data-id='E29_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>You said, ‘Hear me, O Israel. Heed my words, O seed of Jacob. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.031","2ES","9","E29_31","<span class='v E29_31' data-id='E29_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For behold, I sow my law in you, and it will bring forth fruit in you, and you will be glorified in it forever.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.032","2ES","9","E29_32","<span class='v E29_32' data-id='E29_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But our fathers, who received the law, didn’t keep it, and didn’t observe the statutes. The fruit of the law didn’t perish, for it couldn’t, because it was yours. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.033","2ES","9","E29_33","<span class='v E29_33' data-id='E29_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Yet those who received it perished, because they didn’t keep the thing that was sown in them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.034","2ES","9","E29_34","<span class='v E29_34' data-id='E29_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Behold, it is a custom that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel food or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.035","2ES","9","E29_35","<span class='v E29_35' data-id='E29_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain. Yet with us, it doesn’t happen that way. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.036","2ES","9","E29_36","<span class='v E29_36' data-id='E29_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>For we who have received the law will perish by sin, along with our heart which received it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.037","2ES","9","E29_37","<span class='v E29_37' data-id='E29_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Notwithstanding the law doesn’t perish, but remains in its honour.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.038","2ES","9","E29_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_38' data-id='E29_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>When I spoke these things in my heart, I looked around me with my eyes, and on my right side I saw a woman, and behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in mind. Her clothes were torn, and she had ashes on her head. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.039","2ES","9","E29_39","<span class='v E29_39' data-id='E29_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Then let I my thoughts go in which I was occupied, and turned myself to her, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.040","2ES","9","E29_40","<span class='v E29_40' data-id='E29_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>and said to her, “Why are you weeping? Why are you grieved in your mind?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.041","2ES","9","E29_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_41' data-id='E29_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>She said to me, “Leave me alone, my Lord, that I may weep for myself and add to my sorrow, for I am very troubled in my mind, and brought very low.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.042","2ES","9","E29_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_42' data-id='E29_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>I said to her, “What ails you? Tell me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.043","2ES","9","E29_43","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E29_43' data-id='E29_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>She said to me, “I, your servant, was barren and had no child, though I had a husband thirty years. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.044","2ES","9","E29_44","<span class='v E29_44' data-id='E29_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Every hour and every day these thirty years I made my prayer to the Most High day and night. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.045","2ES","9","E29_45","<span class='v E29_45' data-id='E29_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>It came to pass after thirty years that God heard me, your handmaid, and saw my low estate, and considered my trouble, and gave me a son. I rejoiced in him greatly, I and my husband, and all my <span class='note' id='footnote-1348'><a href='#note-1348' class='key'>†</a></span>neighbours. We gave great honour to the Mighty One. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.046","2ES","9","E29_46","<span class='v E29_46' data-id='E29_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>I nourished him with great care. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.009.047","2ES","9","E29_47","<span class='v E29_47' data-id='E29_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>So when he grew up, and I came to take him a wife, I made him a feast day. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.001","2ES","10","E210_1","<div class='c'>10</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_1' data-id='E210_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“So it came to pass that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down and died. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.002","2ES","10","E210_2","<span class='v E210_2' data-id='E210_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Then we all put out the lamps, and all my <span class='note' id='footnote-1349'><a href='#note-1349' class='key'>*</a></span>neighbours rose up to comfort me. I remained quiet until the second day at night. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.003","2ES","10","E210_3","<span class='v E210_3' data-id='E210_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>It came to pass, when they had all stopped consoling me, encouraging me to be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.004","2ES","10","E210_4","<span class='v E210_4' data-id='E210_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Now I don’t intend to return into the city, but to stay here, and not eat or drink, but to continually mourn and fast until I die.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.005","2ES","10","E210_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_5' data-id='E210_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Then I left the reflections I was engaged in, and answered her in anger, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.006","2ES","10","E210_6","<span class='v E210_6' data-id='E210_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“You most foolish woman, don’t you see our mourning, and what has happened to us? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.007","2ES","10","E210_7","<span class='v E210_7' data-id='E210_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>For Zion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.008","2ES","10","E210_8","<span class='v E210_8' data-id='E210_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1350'><a href='#note-1350' class='key'>†</a></span>It is right now to mourn deeply, since we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, since we are all in sorrow, but you are mourning for one son. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.009","2ES","10","E210_9","<span class='v E210_9' data-id='E210_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Ask the earth, and she will tell you that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.010","2ES","10","E210_10","<span class='v E210_10' data-id='E210_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For out of her, all had their beginnings, and others will come; and, behold, almost all of them walk into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly doomed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.011","2ES","10","E210_11","<span class='v E210_11' data-id='E210_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Who then should mourn more, <span class='note' id='footnote-1351'><a href='#note-1351' class='key'>‡</a></span>she who has lost so great a multitude, or you, who are grieved but for one? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.012","2ES","10","E210_12","<span class='v E210_12' data-id='E210_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But if you say to me, ‘My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.013","2ES","10","E210_13","<span class='v E210_13' data-id='E210_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth. The multitude present in it has gone as it came. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.014","2ES","10","E210_14","<span class='v E210_14' data-id='E210_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him who made her.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.015","2ES","10","E210_15","<span class='v E210_15' data-id='E210_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have happened to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.016","2ES","10","E210_16","<span class='v E210_16' data-id='E210_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>For if you will acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you will both receive your son in time, and will be praised amongst women. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.017","2ES","10","E210_17","<span class='v E210_17' data-id='E210_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Go your way then into the city to your husband.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.019","2ES","10","E210_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_19' data-id='E210_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>So I proceeded to speak further to her, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.020","2ES","10","E210_20","<span class='v E210_20' data-id='E210_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Don’t do so, but allow yourself to be persuaded by reason of the adversities of Zion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.021","2ES","10","E210_21","<span class='v E210_21' data-id='E210_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For you see that our sanctuary has been laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.022","2ES","10","E210_22","<span class='v E210_22' data-id='E210_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>our lute has been brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that we are called is profaned. Our free men are despitefully treated, our priests are burnt, our Levites have gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled and our wives ravished, our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men have become weak. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.023","2ES","10","E210_23","<span class='v E210_23' data-id='E210_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>What is more than all, the seal of Zion has now lost the seal of her honour, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.024","2ES","10","E210_24","<span class='v E210_24' data-id='E210_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from yourself the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty One may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your troubles.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.025","2ES","10","E210_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_25' data-id='E210_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>It came to pass while I was talking with her, behold, her face suddenly began to shine exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was very afraid of her, and wondered what this meant. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.026","2ES","10","E210_26","<span class='v E210_26' data-id='E210_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Behold, suddenly she made a great and very fearful cry, so that the earth shook at the noise. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.027","2ES","10","E210_27","<span class='v E210_27' data-id='E210_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>I looked, and behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place shown itself from large foundations. Then I was afraid, and cried with a loud voice, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.028","2ES","10","E210_28","<span class='v E210_28' data-id='E210_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? For he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end has turned into corruption, and my prayer a reproach!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.029","2ES","10","E210_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_29' data-id='E210_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>As I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at first came to me, and he looked at me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.030","2ES","10","E210_30","<span class='v E210_30' data-id='E210_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Behold, I lay as one who had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me. He took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me on my feet, and said to me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.031","2ES","10","E210_31","<span class='v E210_31' data-id='E210_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“What ails you? Why are you so troubled? Why is your understanding and the thoughts of your heart troubled?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.032","2ES","10","E210_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_32' data-id='E210_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>I said, “Because you have forsaken me; yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and still see, that which I am not able to explain.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.033","2ES","10","E210_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_33' data-id='E210_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>He said to me, “Stand up like a man, and I will instruct you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.034","2ES","10","E210_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_34' data-id='E210_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Then I said, “Speak on, my Lord; only don’t forsake me, lest I die before my time. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.035","2ES","10","E210_35","<span class='v E210_35' data-id='E210_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For I have seen what I didn’t know, and hear what I don’t know. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.036","2ES","10","E210_36","<span class='v E210_36' data-id='E210_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.037","2ES","10","E210_37","<span class='v E210_37' data-id='E210_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Now therefore I beg you to explain to your servant what this vision means.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.038","2ES","10","E210_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_38' data-id='E210_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>He answered me, “Listen to me, and I will inform you, and tell you about the things you are afraid of, for the Most High has revealed many secret things to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.039","2ES","10","E210_39","<span class='v E210_39' data-id='E210_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>He has seen that your way is righteous, because you are continually sorry for your people, and make great lamentation for Zion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.040","2ES","10","E210_40","<span class='v E210_40' data-id='E210_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>This therefore is the meaning of the vision. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.041","2ES","10","E210_41","<span class='v E210_41' data-id='E210_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>The woman who appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.042","2ES","10","E210_42","<span class='v E210_42' data-id='E210_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>but now you no longer see the likeness of the woman, but a city under construction appeared to you, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.043","2ES","10","E210_43","<span class='v E210_43' data-id='E210_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>and she told you of the death of her son, this is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.044","2ES","10","E210_44","<span class='v E210_44' data-id='E210_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>This woman, whom you saw, is Zion,<span class='note' id='footnote-1352'><a href='#note-1352' class='key'>§</a></span> whom you now see as a city being built. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.045","2ES","10","E210_45","<span class='v E210_45' data-id='E210_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>She told you that she had been barren for thirty years because there were three thousand years in the world in which there was no offering as yet offered in her. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.046","2ES","10","E210_46","<span class='v E210_46' data-id='E210_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>And it came to pass after three thousand years that Solomon built the city and offered offerings. It was then that the barren bore a son. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.047","2ES","10","E210_47","<span class='v E210_47' data-id='E210_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>She told you that she nourished him with great care. That was the dwelling in Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.048","2ES","10","E210_48","<span class='v E210_48' data-id='E210_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>When she said to you, ‘My son died when he entered into his marriage chamber, and that misfortune befell her,’ this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.049","2ES","10","E210_49","<span class='v E210_49' data-id='E210_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>Behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has happened to her. These were the things to be opened to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.050","2ES","10","E210_50","<span class='v E210_50' data-id='E210_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>For now the Most High, seeing that you are sincerely grieved and suffer from your whole heart for her, has shown you the brightness of her glory and the attractiveness of her beauty. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.051","2ES","10","E210_51","<span class='v E210_51' data-id='E210_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Therefore I asked you to remain in the field where no house was built, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.052","2ES","10","E210_52","<span class='v E210_52' data-id='E210_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>for I knew that the Most High would show this to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.053","2ES","10","E210_53","<span class='v E210_53' data-id='E210_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.054","2ES","10","E210_54","<span class='v E210_54' data-id='E210_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>For no human construction could stand in the place in which the city of the Most High was to be shown. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.055","2ES","10","E210_55","<span class='v E210_55' data-id='E210_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>Therefore don’t be afraid nor let your heart be terrified, but go your way in and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes are able to see. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.056","2ES","10","E210_56","<span class='v E210_56' data-id='E210_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>Then will you hear as much as your ears may comprehend. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.057","2ES","10","E210_57","<span class='v E210_57' data-id='E210_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>For you are more blessed than many, and are called by name to be with the Most High, like only a few. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.058","2ES","10","E210_58","<span class='v E210_58' data-id='E210_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>But tomorrow at night you shall remain here, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.010.059","2ES","10","E210_59","<span class='v E210_59' data-id='E210_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>and so the Most High will show you those visions in dreams of what the Most High will do to those who live on the earth in the last days.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E210_59' data-id='E210_59'>So I slept that night and another, as he commanded me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.001","2ES","11","E211_1","<div class='c'>11</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_1' data-id='E211_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>It came to pass the second night that I saw a dream, and behold, an eagle which had twelve feathered wings and three heads came up from the sea. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.002","2ES","11","E211_2","<span class='v E211_2' data-id='E211_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of heaven blew on her, <span class='note' id='footnote-1353'><a href='#note-1353' class='key'>*</a></span>and the clouds were gathered together against her. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.003","2ES","11","E211_3","<span class='v E211_3' data-id='E211_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>I saw, and out of her wings there grew other wings near them; and they became little, tiny wings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.004","2ES","11","E211_4","<span class='v E211_4' data-id='E211_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>But her heads were at rest. The head in the middle was larger than the other heads, yet rested it with them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.005","2ES","11","E211_5","<span class='v E211_5' data-id='E211_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Moreover I saw, and behold, the eagle flew with her wings to reign over the earth and over those who dwell therein. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.006","2ES","11","E211_6","<span class='v E211_6' data-id='E211_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>I saw how all things under heaven were subject to her, and no one spoke against her—no, not one creature on earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.007","2ES","11","E211_7","<span class='v E211_7' data-id='E211_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, the eagle rose on her talons, and uttered her voice to her wings, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.008","2ES","11","E211_8","<span class='v E211_8' data-id='E211_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“Don’t all watch at the same time. Let each one sleep in his own place and watch in turn; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.009","2ES","11","E211_9","<span class='v E211_9' data-id='E211_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>but let the heads be preserved for the last.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.010","2ES","11","E211_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_10' data-id='E211_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, the voice didn’t come out of her heads, but from the midst of her body. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.011","2ES","11","E211_11","<span class='v E211_11' data-id='E211_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>I counted <span class='note' id='footnote-1354'><a href='#note-1354' class='key'>†</a></span>her wings that were near the others, and behold, there were eight of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.012","2ES","11","E211_12","<span class='v E211_12' data-id='E211_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, on the right side one wing arose and reigned over all the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.013","2ES","11","E211_13","<span class='v E211_13' data-id='E211_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>When it reigned, the end of it came, and it disappeared, so that its place appeared no more. The next wing rose up and reigned, and it ruled a long time. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.014","2ES","11","E211_14","<span class='v E211_14' data-id='E211_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>It happened that when it reigned, its end came also, so that it disappeared, like the first. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.015","2ES","11","E211_15","<span class='v E211_15' data-id='E211_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Behold, a voice came to it, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.016","2ES","11","E211_16","<span class='v E211_16' data-id='E211_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“Listen, you who have ruled over the earth all this time! I proclaim this to you, before you disappear, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.017","2ES","11","E211_17","<span class='v E211_17' data-id='E211_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>none after you will rule as long as you, not even half as long.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.018","2ES","11","E211_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_18' data-id='E211_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Then the third arose, and ruled as the others before, and it also disappeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.019","2ES","11","E211_19","<span class='v E211_19' data-id='E211_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>So it went with all the wings one after another, as every one ruled, and then disappeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.020","2ES","11","E211_20","<span class='v E211_20' data-id='E211_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, in process of time the <span class='note' id='footnote-1355'><a href='#note-1355' class='key'>‡</a></span>wings that followed were set up on the <span class='note' id='footnote-1356'><a href='#note-1356' class='key'>§</a></span>right side, that they might rule also. Some of them ruled, but in a while they disappeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.021","2ES","11","E211_21","<span class='v E211_21' data-id='E211_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Some of them also were set up, but didn’t rule. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.022","2ES","11","E211_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_22' data-id='E211_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>After this I saw, and behold, the twelve wings disappeared, along with two of the little wings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.023","2ES","11","E211_23","<span class='v E211_23' data-id='E211_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>There was no more left on the eagle’s body, except the three heads that rested, and six little wings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.024","2ES","11","E211_24","<span class='v E211_24' data-id='E211_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, two little wings divided themselves from the six and remained under the head that was on the right side; but four remained in their place. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.025","2ES","11","E211_25","<span class='v E211_25' data-id='E211_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, these <span class='note' id='footnote-1357'><a href='#note-1357' class='key'>*</a></span>under wings planned to set themselves up and to rule. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.026","2ES","11","E211_26","<span class='v E211_26' data-id='E211_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, there was one set up, but in a while it disappeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.027","2ES","11","E211_27","<span class='v E211_27' data-id='E211_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>A second also did so, and it disappeared faster than the first. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.028","2ES","11","E211_28","<span class='v E211_28' data-id='E211_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, the two that remained also planned between themselves to reign. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.029","2ES","11","E211_29","<span class='v E211_29' data-id='E211_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>While they thought about it, behold, one of the heads that were at rest awakened, the one that was in the middle, for that was greater than the two other heads. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.030","2ES","11","E211_30","<span class='v E211_30' data-id='E211_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>I saw how it joined the two other heads with it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.031","2ES","11","E211_31","<span class='v E211_31' data-id='E211_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Behold, the head turned with those who were with it, and ate the two <span class='note' id='footnote-1358'><a href='#note-1358' class='key'>†</a></span>under wings that planned to reign. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.032","2ES","11","E211_32","<span class='v E211_32' data-id='E211_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But this head held the whole earth in possession, and ruled over those who dwell in it with much oppression. It had stronger governance over the world than all the wings that had gone before. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.033","2ES","11","E211_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_33' data-id='E211_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>After this I saw, and behold, the head also that was in the middle suddenly disappeared, like the wings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.034","2ES","11","E211_34","<span class='v E211_34' data-id='E211_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>But the two heads remained, which also reigned the same way over the earth and over those who dwell in it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.035","2ES","11","E211_35","<span class='v E211_35' data-id='E211_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, the head on the right side devoured the one that was on the left side. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.036","2ES","11","E211_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_36' data-id='E211_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Then I heard a voice, which said to me, “Look in front of you, and consider the thing that you see.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.037","2ES","11","E211_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E211_37' data-id='E211_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, something like a lion roused out of the woods roaring. I heard how he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.038","2ES","11","E211_38","<span class='v E211_38' data-id='E211_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>“Listen and I will talk with you. The Most High will say to you, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.039","2ES","11","E211_39","<span class='v E211_39' data-id='E211_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>‘Aren’t you the one that remains of the four animals whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.040","2ES","11","E211_40","<span class='v E211_40' data-id='E211_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>The fourth came and overcame all the animals that were past, and ruled the world with great trembling, and the whole extent of the earth with grievous oppression. He lived on the earth such a long time with deceit. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.041","2ES","11","E211_41","<span class='v E211_41' data-id='E211_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>You have judged the earth, but not with truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.042","2ES","11","E211_42","<span class='v E211_42' data-id='E211_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>For you have afflicted the meek, you have hurt the peaceful, you have hated those who speak truth, you have loved liars, destroyed the dwellings of those who produced fruit, and threw down the walls of those who did you no harm. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.043","2ES","11","E211_43","<span class='v E211_43' data-id='E211_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Your insolence has come up to the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.044","2ES","11","E211_44","<span class='v E211_44' data-id='E211_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>The Most High also has looked at his times, and behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.045","2ES","11","E211_45","<span class='v E211_45' data-id='E211_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your worthless body, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.011.046","2ES","11","E211_46","<span class='v E211_46' data-id='E211_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>that all the earth may be refreshed and relieved, being delivered from your violence, and that she may hope for the judgement and mercy of him who made her.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.001","2ES","12","E212_1","<div class='c'>12</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_1' data-id='E212_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>It came to pass, while the lion spoke these words to the eagle, I saw, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.002","2ES","12","E212_2","<span class='v E212_2' data-id='E212_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and behold, the head that remained disappeared, and <span class='note' id='footnote-1359'><a href='#note-1359' class='key'>*</a></span>the two wings which went over to it arose and set themselves up to reign; and their kingdom was brief and full of uproar. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.003","2ES","12","E212_3","<span class='v E212_3' data-id='E212_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, they disappeared, and the whole body of the eagle was burnt, so that the earth was in great fear. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_3' data-id='E212_3'>Then I woke up because of great perplexity of mind and great fear, and said to my spirit, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.004","2ES","12","E212_4","<span class='v E212_4' data-id='E212_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“Behold, you have done this to me, because you search out the ways of the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.005","2ES","12","E212_5","<span class='v E212_5' data-id='E212_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Behold, I am still weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit. There isn’t even a little strength in me, because of the great fear with which I was frightened tonight. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.006","2ES","12","E212_6","<span class='v E212_6' data-id='E212_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Therefore I will now ask the Most High that he would strengthen me to the end.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.007","2ES","12","E212_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_7' data-id='E212_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Then I said, “O sovereign Lord, if I have found favour in your sight, and if I am justified with you more than many others, and if my prayer has indeed come up before your face, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.008","2ES","12","E212_8","<span class='v E212_8' data-id='E212_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>strengthen me then, and show me, your servant, the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that you may fully comfort my soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.009","2ES","12","E212_9","<span class='v E212_9' data-id='E212_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For you have judged me worthy to show me the end of time and the last events of the times.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.010","2ES","12","E212_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_10' data-id='E212_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>He said to me, “This is the interpretation of this vision which you saw: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.011","2ES","12","E212_11","<span class='v E212_11' data-id='E212_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>The eagle, whom you saw come up from the sea, is the fourth kingdom which appeared in a vision to your brother Daniel. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.012","2ES","12","E212_12","<span class='v E212_12' data-id='E212_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But it was not explained to him, as I now explain it to you or have explained it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.013","2ES","12","E212_13","<span class='v E212_13' data-id='E212_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Behold, the days come that a kingdom will rise up on earth, and it will be feared more than all the kingdoms that were before it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.014","2ES","12","E212_14","<span class='v E212_14' data-id='E212_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Twelve kings will reign in it, one after another. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.015","2ES","12","E212_15","<span class='v E212_15' data-id='E212_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Of those, the second will begin to reign, and will reign a longer time than others of the twelve. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.016","2ES","12","E212_16","<span class='v E212_16' data-id='E212_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>This is the interpretation of the twelve wings which you saw. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.017","2ES","12","E212_17","<span class='v E212_17' data-id='E212_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>As for when you heard a voice which spoke, not going out from the heads, but from the midst of its body, this is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.018","2ES","12","E212_18","<span class='v E212_18' data-id='E212_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>That <span class='note' id='footnote-1360'><a href='#note-1360' class='key'>†</a></span>after the time of that kingdom, there will arise no small contentions, and it will stand in peril of falling. Nevertheless, it won’t fall then, but will be restored again to its former power. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.019","2ES","12","E212_19","<span class='v E212_19' data-id='E212_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>You saw the eight under wings sticking to her wings. This is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.020","2ES","12","E212_20","<span class='v E212_20' data-id='E212_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>That in it eight kings will arise, whose times will be short and their years swift. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.021","2ES","12","E212_21","<span class='v E212_21' data-id='E212_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Two of them will perish when the middle time approaches. Four will be kept for a while until the time of the ending of it will approach; but two will be kept to the end. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.022","2ES","12","E212_22","<span class='v E212_22' data-id='E212_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>You saw three heads resting. This is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.023","2ES","12","E212_23","<span class='v E212_23' data-id='E212_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>In its last days, the Most High will raise up three <span class='note' id='footnote-1361'><a href='#note-1361' class='key'>‡</a></span>kingdoms and renew many things in them. They will rule over the earth, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.024","2ES","12","E212_24","<span class='v E212_24' data-id='E212_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>and over those who dwell in it, with much oppression, more than all those who were before them. Therefore they are called the heads of the eagle. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.025","2ES","12","E212_25","<span class='v E212_25' data-id='E212_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For these are those who will accomplish her wickedness, and who will finish her last actions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.026","2ES","12","E212_26","<span class='v E212_26' data-id='E212_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>You saw that the great head disappeared. It signifies that one of them will die on his bed, and yet with pain. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.027","2ES","12","E212_27","<span class='v E212_27' data-id='E212_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>But for the two that remained, the sword will devour them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.028","2ES","12","E212_28","<span class='v E212_28' data-id='E212_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>For the sword of the one will devour him that was with him, but he will also fall by the sword in the last days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.029","2ES","12","E212_29","<span class='v E212_29' data-id='E212_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>You saw two under wings passing <span class='note' id='footnote-1362'><a href='#note-1362' class='key'>§</a></span>over to the head that is on the right side. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.030","2ES","12","E212_30","<span class='v E212_30' data-id='E212_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>This is the interpretation: These are they whom the Most High has kept to his end. This is the brief reign that was full of trouble, as you saw. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.031","2ES","12","E212_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_31' data-id='E212_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“The lion, whom you saw rising up out of the forest, roaring, speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness, and all her words which you have heard, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.032","2ES","12","E212_32","<span class='v E212_32' data-id='E212_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>this is the anointed one, whom the Most High has kept to the end <span class='note' id='footnote-1363'><a href='#note-1363' class='key'>*</a></span>[of days, who will spring up out of the seed of David, and he will come and speak] to them and reprove them for their wickedness and unrighteousness, and will<span class='note' id='footnote-1364'><a href='#note-1364' class='key'>†</a></span> heap up before them their contemptuous dealings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.033","2ES","12","E212_33","<span class='v E212_33' data-id='E212_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>For at first he will set them alive in his judgement, and when he has reproved them, he will destroy them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.034","2ES","12","E212_34","<span class='v E212_34' data-id='E212_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>For he will deliver the rest of my people with mercy, those who have been preserved throughout my borders, and he will make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgement, about which I have spoken to you from the beginning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.035","2ES","12","E212_35","<span class='v E212_35' data-id='E212_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.036","2ES","12","E212_36","<span class='v E212_36' data-id='E212_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Only you have been worthy to know the secret of the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.037","2ES","12","E212_37","<span class='v E212_37' data-id='E212_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put it in a secret place. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.038","2ES","12","E212_38","<span class='v E212_38' data-id='E212_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>You shall teach them to the wise of your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.039","2ES","12","E212_39","<span class='v E212_39' data-id='E212_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>But wait here yourself seven more days, that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.” Then he departed from me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.040","2ES","12","E212_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_40' data-id='E212_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>It came to pass, when all the people <span class='note' id='footnote-1365'><a href='#note-1365' class='key'>‡</a></span>saw that the seven days were past, and I had not come again into the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me, and spoke to me, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.041","2ES","12","E212_41","<span class='v E212_41' data-id='E212_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“How have we offended you? What evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.042","2ES","12","E212_42","<span class='v E212_42' data-id='E212_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>For of all the prophets, only you are left to us, like a cluster of the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbour for a ship saved from the tempest. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.043","2ES","12","E212_43","<span class='v E212_43' data-id='E212_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Aren’t the evils which have come to us sufficient? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.044","2ES","12","E212_44","<span class='v E212_44' data-id='E212_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.045","2ES","12","E212_45","<span class='v E212_45' data-id='E212_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>For we are not better than those who died there.” Then they wept with a loud voice. I answered them, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.046","2ES","12","E212_46","<span class='v E212_46' data-id='E212_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>“Take courage, O Israel! Don’t be sorrowful, you house of Jacob; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.047","2ES","12","E212_47","<span class='v E212_47' data-id='E212_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>for the Most High remembers you. The Mighty has not forgotten you <span class='note' id='footnote-1366'><a href='#note-1366' class='key'>§</a></span>forever. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.048","2ES","12","E212_48","<span class='v E212_48' data-id='E212_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>As for me, I have not forsaken you. I haven’t departed from you; but I have come into this place to pray for the desolation of Zion, and that I might seek mercy for the humiliation of your sanctuary. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.049","2ES","12","E212_49","<span class='v E212_49' data-id='E212_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>Now go your way, every man to his own house, and after these days I will come to you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.050","2ES","12","E212_50","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E212_50' data-id='E212_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>So the people went their way into the city, as I told them to do. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.012.051","2ES","12","E212_51","<span class='v E212_51' data-id='E212_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>But I sat in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me. In those days, I ate only of the flowers of the field, and my food was from plants. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.001","2ES","13","E213_1","<div class='c'>13</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_1' data-id='E213_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>It came to pass after seven days, I dreamt a dream by night. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.002","2ES","13","E213_2","<span class='v E213_2' data-id='E213_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Behold, a wind arose from the sea that moved all its waves. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.003","2ES","13","E213_3","<span class='v E213_3' data-id='E213_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, <span class='note' id='footnote-1367'><a href='#note-1367' class='key'>*</a></span>[this wind caused to come up from the midst of the sea something like the appearance of a man. I saw, and behold,] that man <span class='note' id='footnote-1368'><a href='#note-1368' class='key'>†</a></span>flew with the clouds of heaven. When he turned his face to look, everything that he saw trembled. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.004","2ES","13","E213_4","<span class='v E213_4' data-id='E213_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Whenever the voice went out of his mouth, all who heard his voice melted, like the <span class='note' id='footnote-1369'><a href='#note-1369' class='key'>‡</a></span>wax melts when it feels the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.005","2ES","13","E213_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_5' data-id='E213_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>After this I saw, and behold, an innumerable multitude of people was gathered together from the four winds of heaven to make war against the man who came out of the sea. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.006","2ES","13","E213_6","<span class='v E213_6' data-id='E213_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>I saw, and behold, he carved himself a great mountain, and flew up onto it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.007","2ES","13","E213_7","<span class='v E213_7' data-id='E213_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>I tried to see the region or place from which the mountain was carved, and I couldn’t. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.008","2ES","13","E213_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_8' data-id='E213_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>After this I saw, and behold, all those who were gathered together to fight against him were very afraid, and yet they dared to fight. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.009","2ES","13","E213_9","<span class='v E213_9' data-id='E213_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Behold, as he saw the assault of the multitude that came, he didn’t lift up his hand, or hold a spear or any weapon of war; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.010","2ES","13","E213_10","<span class='v E213_10' data-id='E213_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>but I saw only how he sent out of his mouth something like a flood of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he shot out a storm of sparks.<span class='note' id='footnote-1370'><a href='#note-1370' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.011","2ES","13","E213_11","<span class='v E213_11' data-id='E213_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>These were all mixed together: the flood of fire, the flaming breath, and the great storm, and fell upon the assault of the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burnt up every one of them, so that all of a sudden an innumerable multitude was seen to be nothing but dust of ashes and smell of smoke. When I saw this, I was amazed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.012","2ES","13","E213_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_12' data-id='E213_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Afterward, I saw the same man come down from the mountain, and call to himself another multitude which was peaceful. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.013","2ES","13","E213_13","<span class='v E213_13' data-id='E213_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Many people came to him. Some of them were glad. Some were sorry. Some of them were bound, and some others brought some of those as offerings. Then through great fear I woke up and prayed to the Most High, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.014","2ES","13","E213_14","<span class='v E213_14' data-id='E213_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“You have shown your servant these wonders from the beginning, and have counted me worthy that you should receive my prayer. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.015","2ES","13","E213_15","<span class='v E213_15' data-id='E213_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now show me also the interpretation of this dream. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.016","2ES","13","E213_16","<span class='v E213_16' data-id='E213_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who will be left in those days! Much more woe to those who are not left! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.017","2ES","13","E213_17","<span class='v E213_17' data-id='E213_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For those who were not left will be in heaviness, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.018","2ES","13","E213_18","<span class='v E213_18' data-id='E213_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days, but not attaining to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.019","2ES","13","E213_19","<span class='v E213_19' data-id='E213_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>But woe to them also who are left, because they will see great perils and much distress, like these dreams declare. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.020","2ES","13","E213_20","<span class='v E213_20' data-id='E213_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Yet is it <span class='note' id='footnote-1371'><a href='#note-1371' class='key'>*</a></span>better for one to be in peril and to come into <span class='note' id='footnote-1372'><a href='#note-1372' class='key'>†</a></span>these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that <span class='note' id='footnote-1373'><a href='#note-1373' class='key'>‡</a></span>will happen in the last days.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_20' data-id='E213_20'>He answered me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.021","2ES","13","E213_21","<span class='v E213_21' data-id='E213_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“I will tell you the interpretation of the vision, and I will also open to you the things about which you mentioned. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.022","2ES","13","E213_22","<span class='v E213_22' data-id='E213_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>You have spoken of those who are left behind. This is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.023","2ES","13","E213_23","<span class='v E213_23' data-id='E213_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>He that will <span class='note' id='footnote-1374'><a href='#note-1374' class='key'>§</a></span>endure the peril in that time will protect those who fall into danger, even those who have works and faith towards the Almighty. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.024","2ES","13","E213_24","<span class='v E213_24' data-id='E213_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Know therefore that those who are left behind are more blessed than those who are dead. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.025","2ES","13","E213_25","<span class='v E213_25' data-id='E213_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>These are the interpretations of the vision: Whereas you saw a man coming up from the midst of the sea, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.026","2ES","13","E213_26","<span class='v E213_26' data-id='E213_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who by his own self will deliver his creation. He will direct those who are left behind. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.027","2ES","13","E213_27","<span class='v E213_27' data-id='E213_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Whereas you saw that out of his mouth came wind, fire, and storm, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.028","2ES","13","E213_28","<span class='v E213_28' data-id='E213_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>and whereas he held neither spear, nor any weapon of war, but destroyed the assault of that multitude which came to fight against him, this is the interpretation: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.029","2ES","13","E213_29","<span class='v E213_29' data-id='E213_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Behold, the days come when the Most High will begin to deliver those who are on the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.030","2ES","13","E213_30","<span class='v E213_30' data-id='E213_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Astonishment of mind will come upon those who dwell on the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.031","2ES","13","E213_31","<span class='v E213_31' data-id='E213_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>One will plan to make war against another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.032","2ES","13","E213_32","<span class='v E213_32' data-id='E213_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>It will be, when these things come to pass, and the signs happen which I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom you saw as a man ascending. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.033","2ES","13","E213_33","<span class='v E213_33' data-id='E213_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>It will be, when all the nations hear his voice, every man will leave his own land and the battle they have against one another. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.034","2ES","13","E213_34","<span class='v E213_34' data-id='E213_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>An innumerable multitude will be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come and to fight against him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.035","2ES","13","E213_35","<span class='v E213_35' data-id='E213_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>But he will stand on the top of Mount Zion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.036","2ES","13","E213_36","<span class='v E213_36' data-id='E213_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Zion will come, and will be shown to all men, being prepared and built, like you saw the mountain carved without hands. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.037","2ES","13","E213_37","<span class='v E213_37' data-id='E213_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>My Son will rebuke the nations which have come for their wickedness, with plagues that are like a storm, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.038","2ES","13","E213_38","<span class='v E213_38' data-id='E213_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>and will rebuke them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments with which they will be tormented, which are like a flame. He will destroy them without labour by the law, which is like fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.039","2ES","13","E213_39","<span class='v E213_39' data-id='E213_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Whereas you saw that he gathered to himself another multitude that was peaceful, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.040","2ES","13","E213_40","<span class='v E213_40' data-id='E213_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>these are the ten tribes which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were taken into another land. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.041","2ES","13","E213_41","<span class='v E213_41' data-id='E213_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>But they made this plan amongst themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go out into a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.042","2ES","13","E213_42","<span class='v E213_42' data-id='E213_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>that there they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.043","2ES","13","E213_43","<span class='v E213_43' data-id='E213_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>They entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.044","2ES","13","E213_44","<span class='v E213_44' data-id='E213_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>For the Most High then did signs for them, and stopped the springs of the River until they had passed over. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.045","2ES","13","E213_45","<span class='v E213_45' data-id='E213_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>For through that country there was a long way to go, namely, of a year and a half. The same region is called <span class='note' id='footnote-1375'><a href='#note-1375' class='key'>*</a></span>Arzareth. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.047","2ES","13","E213_47","<span class='v E213_47' data-id='E213_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>the Most High stops the springs of the River again, that they may go through. Therefore you saw the multitude gathered together with peace. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.048","2ES","13","E213_48","<span class='v E213_48' data-id='E213_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>But those who are left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.049","2ES","13","E213_49","<span class='v E213_49' data-id='E213_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>It will be therefore when he will destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he will defend the people who remain. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.050","2ES","13","E213_50","<span class='v E213_50' data-id='E213_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>Then will he show them very many wonders.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.051","2ES","13","E213_51","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_51' data-id='E213_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Then I said, “O sovereign Lord, explain this to me: Why have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.052","2ES","13","E213_52","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_52' data-id='E213_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>He said to me, as no one can explore or know what is in the depths of the sea, even so no man on earth can see my Son, or those who are with him, except in the time of <span class='note' id='footnote-1376'><a href='#note-1376' class='key'>†</a></span>his day. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.053","2ES","13","E213_53","<span class='v E213_53' data-id='E213_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>This is the interpretation of the dream which you saw, and for this only you are enlightened about this, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.054","2ES","13","E213_54","<span class='v E213_54' data-id='E213_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>for you have forsaken your own ways, and applied your diligence to mine, and have searched out my law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.055","2ES","13","E213_55","<span class='v E213_55' data-id='E213_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>You have ordered your life in wisdom, and have called understanding your mother. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.056","2ES","13","E213_56","<span class='v E213_56' data-id='E213_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>Therefore I have shown you this, for there is a reward laid up with the Most High. It will be, after another three days I will speak other things to you, and declare to you mighty and wondrous things.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.057","2ES","13","E213_57","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E213_57' data-id='E213_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Then I went out and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.013.058","2ES","13","E213_58","<span class='v E213_58' data-id='E213_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>and because he governs the time, and such things as happen in their seasons. So I sat there three days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.001","2ES","14","E214_1","<div class='c'>14</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_1' data-id='E214_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>It came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, a voice came out of a bush near me, and said, “Esdras, Esdras!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.002","2ES","14","E214_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_2' data-id='E214_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>I said, “Here I am, Lord,” and I stood up on my feet. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.003","2ES","14","E214_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_3' data-id='E214_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then he said to me, “I revealed myself in a bush and talked with Moses when my people were in bondage in Egypt. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.004","2ES","14","E214_4","<span class='v E214_4' data-id='E214_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>I sent him, and <span class='note' id='footnote-1377'><a href='#note-1377' class='key'>*</a></span> he led my people out of Egypt. I brought him up to Mount Sinai, where I kept him with me for many days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.005","2ES","14","E214_5","<span class='v E214_5' data-id='E214_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>I told him many wondrous things, and showed him the secrets of the times and the end of the seasons. I commanded him, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.006","2ES","14","E214_6","<span class='v E214_6' data-id='E214_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>‘You shall publish these openly, and these you shall hide.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.007","2ES","14","E214_7","<span class='v E214_7' data-id='E214_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Now I say to you: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.008","2ES","14","E214_8","<span class='v E214_8' data-id='E214_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Lay up in your heart the signs that I have shown, the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.009","2ES","14","E214_9","<span class='v E214_9' data-id='E214_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>for you will be taken away from men, and from now on you will live with my Son and with those who are like you, until the times have ended. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.010","2ES","14","E214_10","<span class='v E214_10' data-id='E214_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to grow old. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.011","2ES","14","E214_11","<span class='v E214_11' data-id='E214_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1378'><a href='#note-1378' class='key'>†</a></span>For the age is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are already gone, <span class='note' id='footnote-1379'><a href='#note-1379' class='key'>‡</a></span>even the half of the tenth part. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.013","2ES","14","E214_13","<span class='v E214_13' data-id='E214_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Now therefore set your house in order, reprove your people, comfort the lowly amongst them, <span class='note' id='footnote-1380'><a href='#note-1380' class='key'>§</a></span> and instruct those of them who are wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.015","2ES","14","E214_15","<span class='v E214_15' data-id='E214_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and hurry to escape from these times. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.016","2ES","14","E214_16","<span class='v E214_16' data-id='E214_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>For worse evils than those which you have seen happen will be done after this. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.017","2ES","14","E214_17","<span class='v E214_17' data-id='E214_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For look how much the world will be weaker through age, so much that more evils will increase on those who dwell in it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.018","2ES","14","E214_18","<span class='v E214_18' data-id='E214_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For the truth will withdraw itself further off, and falsehood will be near. For now <span class='note' id='footnote-1381'><a href='#note-1381' class='key'>*</a></span>the eagle which you saw in vision hurries to come.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.019","2ES","14","E214_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_19' data-id='E214_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Then I answered and said, <span class='note' id='footnote-1382'><a href='#note-1382' class='key'>†</a></span>“Let me speak in your presence, O Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.020","2ES","14","E214_20","<span class='v E214_20' data-id='E214_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people who now live, but who will warn those who will be born afterward? For the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell in it are without light. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.021","2ES","14","E214_21","<span class='v E214_21' data-id='E214_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For your law has been burnt, therefore no one knows the things that are done by you, or the works that will be done. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.022","2ES","14","E214_22","<span class='v E214_22' data-id='E214_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But if I have found favour before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I will write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that those who would live in the latter days may live.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.023","2ES","14","E214_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_23' data-id='E214_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>He answered me and said, “Go your way, gather the people together, and tell them not to seek you for forty days. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.024","2ES","14","E214_24","<span class='v E214_24' data-id='E214_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>But prepare for yourself many tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, which are ready to write swiftly; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.025","2ES","14","E214_25","<span class='v E214_25' data-id='E214_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>and come here, and I will light a lamp of understanding in your heart which will not be put out until the things have ended about which you will write. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.026","2ES","14","E214_26","<span class='v E214_26' data-id='E214_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>When you are done, some things you shall publish openly, and some things you shall deliver in secret to the wise. Tomorrow at this hour you will begin to write.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.027","2ES","14","E214_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_27' data-id='E214_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Then went I out, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.028","2ES","14","E214_28","<span class='v E214_28' data-id='E214_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“Hear these words, O Israel! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.029","2ES","14","E214_29","<span class='v E214_29' data-id='E214_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Our fathers at the beginning were foreigners in Egypt, and they were delivered from there, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.030","2ES","14","E214_30","<span class='v E214_30' data-id='E214_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>and received the law of life, which they didn’t keep, which you also have transgressed after them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.031","2ES","14","E214_31","<span class='v E214_31' data-id='E214_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Then the land of Zion was given to you for a possession; but you yourselves and your ancestors have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.032","2ES","14","E214_32","<span class='v E214_32' data-id='E214_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Because he is a righteous judge, in due time, he took from you what he had given you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.033","2ES","14","E214_33","<span class='v E214_33' data-id='E214_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Now you are here, and your kindred are amongst you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.034","2ES","14","E214_34","<span class='v E214_34' data-id='E214_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Therefore if you will rule over your own understanding and instruct your hearts, you will be kept alive, and after death you will obtain mercy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.035","2ES","14","E214_35","<span class='v E214_35' data-id='E214_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For after death the judgement will come, when we will live again. Then the names of the righteous will become manifest, and the works of the ungodly will be declared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.036","2ES","14","E214_36","<span class='v E214_36' data-id='E214_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Let no one therefore come to me now, nor seek me for forty days.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.037","2ES","14","E214_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_37' data-id='E214_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went out into the field, and remained there. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.038","2ES","14","E214_38","<span class='v E214_38' data-id='E214_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>It came to pass on the next day that, behold, a voice called me, saying, “Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.039","2ES","14","E214_39","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_39' data-id='E214_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Then opened I my mouth, and behold, a full cup was handed to me. It was full of something like water, but its colour was like fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.040","2ES","14","E214_40","<span class='v E214_40' data-id='E214_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>I took it, and drank. When I had drunk it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.041","2ES","14","E214_41","<span class='v E214_41' data-id='E214_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>My mouth was opened, and shut no more. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.042","2ES","14","E214_42","<span class='v E214_42' data-id='E214_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in <span class='note' id='footnote-1383'><a href='#note-1383' class='key'>‡</a></span>characters which they didn’t know, and they sat forty days. Now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.043","2ES","14","E214_43","<span class='v E214_43' data-id='E214_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I didn’t hold my tongue. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.044","2ES","14","E214_44","<span class='v E214_44' data-id='E214_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>So in forty days, ninety-four books were written. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.045","2ES","14","E214_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_45' data-id='E214_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>It came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, “The first books that you have written, publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read them; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.046","2ES","14","E214_46","<span class='v E214_46' data-id='E214_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>but keep the last seventy, that you may deliver them to those who are wise amongst your people; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.047","2ES","14","E214_47","<span class='v E214_47' data-id='E214_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.014.048","2ES","14","E214_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E214_48' data-id='E214_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>I did so. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.001","2ES","15","E215_1","<div class='c'>15</div><div class='p'><span class='v E215_1' data-id='E215_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“Behold, speak in the ears of my people the words of prophecy which I will put in your mouth,” says the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.002","2ES","15","E215_2","<span class='v E215_2' data-id='E215_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“Cause them to be written on paper, for they are faithful and true. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.003","2ES","15","E215_3","<span class='v E215_3' data-id='E215_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Don’t be afraid of their plots against you. Don’t let the unbelief of those who speak against you trouble you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.004","2ES","15","E215_4","<span class='v E215_4' data-id='E215_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>For all the unbelievers will die in their unbelief. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.005","2ES","15","E215_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E215_5' data-id='E215_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“Behold,” says the Lord, “I bring evils on the whole earth: sword, famine, death, and destruction. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.006","2ES","15","E215_6","<span class='v E215_6' data-id='E215_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For wickedness has prevailed over every land, and their hurtful works have reached their limit. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.007","2ES","15","E215_7","<span class='v E215_7' data-id='E215_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Therefore,” says the Lord, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.008","2ES","15","E215_8","<span class='v E215_8' data-id='E215_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“I will hold my peace no more concerning their wickedness which they profanely commit, neither will I tolerate them in these things, which they wickedly practise. Behold, the innocent and righteous blood cries to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.009","2ES","15","E215_9","<span class='v E215_9' data-id='E215_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>I will surely avenge them,” says the Lord, “and will receive to me all the innocent blood from amongst them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.010","2ES","15","E215_10","<span class='v E215_10' data-id='E215_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Behold, my people is led like a flock to the slaughter. I will not allow them now to dwell in the land of Egypt, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.011","2ES","15","E215_11","<span class='v E215_11' data-id='E215_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all its land.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.012","2ES","15","E215_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E215_12' data-id='E215_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Let Egypt and its foundations mourn, for the plague of the chastisement and the punishment that God will bring upon it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.013","2ES","15","E215_13","<span class='v E215_13' data-id='E215_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Let the farmers that till the ground mourn, for their seeds will fail and their trees will be ruined through the blight and hail, and a terrible tempest. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.014","2ES","15","E215_14","<span class='v E215_14' data-id='E215_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Woe to the world and those who dwell in it! </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.017","2ES","15","E215_17","<span class='v E215_17' data-id='E215_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For a man will desire to go into a city, and will not be able. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.018","2ES","15","E215_18","<span class='v E215_18' data-id='E215_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For because of their pride the cities will be troubled, the houses will be destroyed, and men will be afraid. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.019","2ES","15","E215_19","<span class='v E215_19' data-id='E215_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>A man will have no pity on his neighbours, but will assault their houses with the sword and plunder their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great suffering. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.020","2ES","15","E215_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E215_20' data-id='E215_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Behold,” says God, “I call together all the kings of the earth to stir up those who are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus, to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.021","2ES","15","E215_21","<span class='v E215_21' data-id='E215_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Just as they do yet this day to my chosen, so I will do also, and repay into their bosom.” The Lord God says: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.022","2ES","15","E215_22","<span class='v E215_22' data-id='E215_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>“My right hand won’t spare the sinners, and my sword won’t cease over those who shed innocent blood on the earth. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.024","2ES","15","E215_24","<span class='v E215_24' data-id='E215_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Woe to those who sin and don’t keep my commandments!” says the Lord. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.026","2ES","15","E215_26","<span class='v E215_26' data-id='E215_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>For the Lord knows all those who trespass against him, therefore he will deliver them to death and destruction. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.030","2ES","15","E215_30","<span class='v E215_30' data-id='E215_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Also the Carmonians, raging in wrath, will go out like the wild boars of the forest. They will come with great power and join battle with them, and will devastate a portion of the land of the Assyrians with their teeth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.031","2ES","15","E215_31","<span class='v E215_31' data-id='E215_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Then the dragons will have the upper hand, remembering their nature. If they will turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.034","2ES","15","E215_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E215_34' data-id='E215_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Behold, clouds from the east, and from the north to the south! They are very horrible to look at, full of wrath and storm. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.035","2ES","15","E215_35","<span class='v E215_35' data-id='E215_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>They will clash against one another. They will pour out a heavy storm on the earth, even their own storm. There will be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.036","2ES","15","E215_36","<span class='v E215_36' data-id='E215_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hock. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.037","2ES","15","E215_37","<span class='v E215_37' data-id='E215_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>There will be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth. They who see that wrath will be afraid, and trembling will seize them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.038","2ES","15","E215_38","<span class='v E215_38' data-id='E215_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>After this, great storms will be stirred up from the south, from the north, and another part from the west. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.041","2ES","15","E215_41","<span class='v E215_41' data-id='E215_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>fire, hail, flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.047","2ES","15","E215_47","<span class='v E215_47' data-id='E215_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like her. You have decked out your daughters for prostitution, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always lusted after you! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.048","2ES","15","E215_48","<span class='v E215_48' data-id='E215_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>You have followed her who is hateful in all her works and inventions. Therefore God says, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.050","2ES","15","E215_50","<span class='v E215_50' data-id='E215_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>The glory of your power will be dried up like a flower when the heat rises that is sent over you. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.056","2ES","15","E215_56","<span class='v E215_56' data-id='E215_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>Just as you will do to my chosen,” says the Lord, “even so God will do to you, and will deliver you to your adversaries. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.057","2ES","15","E215_57","<span class='v E215_57' data-id='E215_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Your children will die of hunger. You will fall by the sword. Your cities will be broken down, and all your people in the field will perish by the sword. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.015.061","2ES","15","E215_61","<span class='v E215_61' data-id='E215_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>You will be cast down by them as stubble, and they will be to you as fire. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.003","2ES","16","E216_3","<span class='v E216_3' data-id='E216_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.004","2ES","16","E216_4","<span class='v E216_4' data-id='E216_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>A fire has been sent upon you, and who is there to quench it? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.005","2ES","16","E216_5","<span class='v E216_5' data-id='E216_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Calamities are sent upon you, and who is there to drive them away? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.006","2ES","16","E216_6","<span class='v E216_6' data-id='E216_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Can one drive away a hungry lion in the forest? Can one quench a fire in stubble, once it has begun to burn? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.007","2ES","16","E216_7","<span class='v E216_7' data-id='E216_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Can one turn back an arrow that is shot by a strong archer? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.008","2ES","16","E216_8","<span class='v E216_8' data-id='E216_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The Lord God sends the calamities, and who will drive them away? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.009","2ES","16","E216_9","<span class='v E216_9' data-id='E216_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>A fire will go out from his wrath, and who may quench it? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.010","2ES","16","E216_10","<span class='v E216_10' data-id='E216_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>He will flash lightning, and who will not fear? He will thunder, and who wouldn’t tremble? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.011","2ES","16","E216_11","<span class='v E216_11' data-id='E216_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>The Lord will threaten, and who will not be utterly broken in pieces at his presence? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.013","2ES","16","E216_13","<span class='v E216_13' data-id='E216_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>For his right hand that bends the bow is strong, his arrows that he shoots are sharp, and will not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.014","2ES","16","E216_14","<span class='v E216_14' data-id='E216_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Behold, the calamities are sent out, and will not return again until they come upon the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.015","2ES","16","E216_15","<span class='v E216_15' data-id='E216_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>The fire is kindled and will not be put out until it consumes the foundations of the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.016","2ES","16","E216_16","<span class='v E216_16' data-id='E216_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Just as an arrow which is shot by a mighty archer doesn’t return backward, even so the calamities that are sent out upon earth won’t return again. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.017","2ES","16","E216_17","<span class='v E216_17' data-id='E216_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Woe is me! Woe is me! Who will deliver me in those days? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.018","2ES","16","E216_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E216_18' data-id='E216_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>The beginning of sorrows, when there will be great mourning; the beginning of famine, and many will perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers will stand in fear; the beginning of calamities, and all will tremble! What will they do when the calamities come? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.019","2ES","16","E216_19","<span class='v E216_19' data-id='E216_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Behold, famine and plague, suffering and anguish! They are sent as scourges for correction. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.020","2ES","16","E216_20","<span class='v E216_20' data-id='E216_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>But for all these things they will not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.021","2ES","16","E216_21","<span class='v E216_21' data-id='E216_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Behold, food will be so cheap on earth that they will think themselves to be in good condition, and even then calamities will grow on earth: sword, famine, and great confusion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.022","2ES","16","E216_22","<span class='v E216_22' data-id='E216_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>For many of those who dwell on earth will perish of famine; and others who escape the famine, the sword will destroy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.023","2ES","16","E216_23","<span class='v E216_23' data-id='E216_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>The dead will be cast out like dung, and there will be no one to comfort them; for the earth will be left desolate, and its cities will be cast down. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.024","2ES","16","E216_24","<span class='v E216_24' data-id='E216_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>There will be no farmer left to cultivate the earth or to sow it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.025","2ES","16","E216_25","<span class='v E216_25' data-id='E216_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.026","2ES","16","E216_26","<span class='v E216_26' data-id='E216_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.027","2ES","16","E216_27","<span class='v E216_27' data-id='E216_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>for one man will desire to see another, or to hear his voice. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.028","2ES","16","E216_28","<span class='v E216_28' data-id='E216_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>For of a city there will be ten left, and two of the field, who have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.030","2ES","16","E216_30","<span class='v E216_30' data-id='E216_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are some clusters left by those who diligently search through the vineyard, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.031","2ES","16","E216_31","<span class='v E216_31' data-id='E216_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>even so in those days, there will be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.032","2ES","16","E216_32","<span class='v E216_32' data-id='E216_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>The earth will be left desolate, and its fields will be for briers, and its roads and all her paths will grow thorns, because no sheep will pass along them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.033","2ES","16","E216_33","<span class='v E216_33' data-id='E216_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>The virgins will mourn, having no bridegrooms. The women will mourn, having no husbands. Their daughters will mourn, having no helpers. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.034","2ES","16","E216_34","<span class='v E216_34' data-id='E216_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Their bridegrooms will be destroyed in the wars, and their husbands will perish of famine. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.035","2ES","16","E216_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E216_35' data-id='E216_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Hear now these things, and understand them, you servants of the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.036","2ES","16","E216_36","<span class='v E216_36' data-id='E216_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Behold, the Lord’s word: receive it. Don’t doubt the things about which the Lord speaks. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.037","2ES","16","E216_37","<span class='v E216_37' data-id='E216_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Behold, the calamities draw near, and are not delayed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.038","2ES","16","E216_38","<span class='v E216_38' data-id='E216_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours great pains surround her womb, and when the child comes out from the womb, there will be no waiting for a moment, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.039","2ES","16","E216_39","<span class='v E216_39' data-id='E216_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>even so the calamities won’t delay coming upon the earth. The world will groan, and sorrows will seize it on every side. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.040","2ES","16","E216_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E216_40' data-id='E216_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>“O my people, hear my word: prepare for battle, and in those calamities be like strangers on the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.041","2ES","16","E216_41","<span class='v E216_41' data-id='E216_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>He who sells, let him be as he who flees away, and he who buys, as one who will lose. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.042","2ES","16","E216_42","<span class='v E216_42' data-id='E216_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>Let he who does business be as he who has no profit by it, and he who builds, as he who won’t dwell in it, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.043","2ES","16","E216_43","<span class='v E216_43' data-id='E216_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>and he who sows, as if he wouldn’t reap, so also he who prunes the vines, as he who won’t gather the grapes, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.044","2ES","16","E216_44","<span class='v E216_44' data-id='E216_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>those who marry, as those who will have no children, and those who don’t marry, as the widowed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.045","2ES","16","E216_45","<span class='v E216_45' data-id='E216_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Because of this, those who labour, labour in vain; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.046","2ES","16","E216_46","<span class='v E216_46' data-id='E216_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>for foreigners will reap their fruits, plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine they will conceive their children. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.047","2ES","16","E216_47","<span class='v E216_47' data-id='E216_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>Those who conduct business, do so only to be plundered. The more they adorn their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.048","2ES","16","E216_48","<span class='v E216_48' data-id='E216_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>the more I will hate them for their sins,” says the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.049","2ES","16","E216_49","<span class='v E216_49' data-id='E216_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>Just as a respectable and virtuous woman hates a prostitute, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.050","2ES","16","E216_50","<span class='v E216_50' data-id='E216_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>so will righteousness hate iniquity, when she adorns herself, and will accuse her to her face, when he comes who will defend him who diligently searches out every sin on earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.051","2ES","16","E216_51","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E216_51' data-id='E216_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Therefore don’t be like her or her works. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.052","2ES","16","E216_52","<span class='v E216_52' data-id='E216_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>For yet a little while, and iniquity will be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness will reign over us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.053","2ES","16","E216_53","<span class='v E216_53' data-id='E216_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>Don’t let the sinner say that he has not sinned; for God will burn coals of fire on the head of one who says “I haven’t sinned before God and his glory.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.054","2ES","16","E216_54","<span class='v E216_54' data-id='E216_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.055","2ES","16","E216_55","<span class='v E216_55' data-id='E216_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>He said, “Let the earth be made,” and it was made, “Let the sky be made,” and it was made. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.056","2ES","16","E216_56","<span class='v E216_56' data-id='E216_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>At his word, the stars were established, and he knows the number of the stars. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.057","2ES","16","E216_57","<span class='v E216_57' data-id='E216_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>He searches the deep and its treasures. He has measured the sea and what it contains. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.058","2ES","16","E216_58","<span class='v E216_58' data-id='E216_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>He has shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word, he hung the earth over the waters. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.059","2ES","16","E216_59","<span class='v E216_59' data-id='E216_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>He has spread out the sky like a vault. He has founded it over the waters. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.060","2ES","16","E216_60","<span class='v E216_60' data-id='E216_60'><span class='v-num v-60'>60&#160;</span>He has made springs of water in the desert and pools on the tops of the mountains to send out rivers from the heights to water the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.061","2ES","16","E216_61","<span class='v E216_61' data-id='E216_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>He formed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.062","2ES","16","E216_62","<span class='v E216_62' data-id='E216_62'><span class='v-num v-62'>62&#160;</span>yes, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things and searches out hidden things in hidden places, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.063","2ES","16","E216_63","<span class='v E216_63' data-id='E216_63'><span class='v-num v-63'>63&#160;</span>surely he knows your imagination, and what you think in your hearts. Woe to those who sin, and try to hide their sin! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.064","2ES","16","E216_64","<span class='v E216_64' data-id='E216_64'><span class='v-num v-64'>64&#160;</span>Because the Lord will exactly investigate all your works, and he will put you all to shame. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.065","2ES","16","E216_65","<span class='v E216_65' data-id='E216_65'><span class='v-num v-65'>65&#160;</span>When your sins are brought out before men, you will be ashamed, and your own iniquities will stand as your accusers in that day. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.066","2ES","16","E216_66","<span class='v E216_66' data-id='E216_66'><span class='v-num v-66'>66&#160;</span>What will you do? Or how will you hide your sins before God and his angels? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.067","2ES","16","E216_67","<span class='v E216_67' data-id='E216_67'><span class='v-num v-67'>67&#160;</span>Behold, God is the judge. Fear him! Stop sinning, and forget your iniquities, to never again commit them. So will God lead you out, and deliver you from all suffering. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.068","2ES","16","E216_68","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E216_68' data-id='E216_68'><span class='v-num v-68'>68&#160;</span>For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they will take away some of you, and feed you with that which is sacrificed to idols. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.069","2ES","16","E216_69","<span class='v E216_69' data-id='E216_69'><span class='v-num v-69'>69&#160;</span>Those who consent to them will be held in derision and in contempt, and be trodden under foot. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.070","2ES","16","E216_70","<span class='v E216_70' data-id='E216_70'><span class='v-num v-70'>70&#160;</span>For there will be in various places, and in the next cities, a great insurrection against those who fear the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.071","2ES","16","E216_71","<span class='v E216_71' data-id='E216_71'><span class='v-num v-71'>71&#160;</span>They will be like mad men, sparing none, but spoiling and destroying those who still fear the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.072","2ES","16","E216_72","<span class='v E216_72' data-id='E216_72'><span class='v-num v-72'>72&#160;</span>For they will destroy and plunder their goods, and throw them out of their houses. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.073","2ES","16","E216_73","<span class='v E216_73' data-id='E216_73'><span class='v-num v-73'>73&#160;</span>Then the trial of my elect will be made known, even as the gold that is tried in the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.074","2ES","16","E216_74","<span class='v E216_74' data-id='E216_74'><span class='v-num v-74'>74&#160;</span>Hear, my elect ones, says the Lord: “Behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.075","2ES","16","E216_75","<span class='v E216_75' data-id='E216_75'><span class='v-num v-75'>75&#160;</span>Don’t be afraid, and don’t doubt, for God is your guide. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.076","2ES","16","E216_76","<span class='v E216_76' data-id='E216_76'><span class='v-num v-76'>76&#160;</span>You who keep my commandments and precepts,” says the Lord God, “don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift themselves up.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.077","2ES","16","E216_77","<span class='v E216_77' data-id='E216_77'><span class='v-num v-77'>77&#160;</span>Woe to those who are choked with their sins and covered with their iniquities, like a field is choked with bushes, and its path covered with thorns, that no one may travel through! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.016.078","2ES","16","E216_78","<span class='v E216_78' data-id='E216_78'><span class='v-num v-78'>78&#160;</span>It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.001","4MA","1","M41_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_1' data-id='M41_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the emotions. I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.002","4MA","1","M41_2","<span class='v M41_2' data-id='M41_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For reason is necessary to everyone as a step to science. In addition, it embraces the praise of self-control, the highest virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.003","4MA","1","M41_3","<span class='v M41_3' data-id='M41_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the emotions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.004","4MA","1","M41_4","<span class='v M41_4' data-id='M41_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>it surely also and manifestly rules over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice, and of those which are hindrances to courage, such as wrath, pain, and fear. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.005","4MA","1","M41_5","<span class='v M41_5' data-id='M41_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Perhaps some may ask, “How is it, then, that reasoning, if it rules the emotions, isn’t also master of forgetfulness and ignorance?” They attempt a ridiculous argument. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.006","4MA","1","M41_6","<span class='v M41_6' data-id='M41_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to justice, courage, temperance, and self-control; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.007","4MA","1","M41_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_7' data-id='M41_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>I might prove to you from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the emotions; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.008","4MA","1","M41_8","<span class='v M41_8' data-id='M41_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>but I will prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven kindred, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.009","4MA","1","M41_9","<span class='v M41_9' data-id='M41_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For all these, treating pains with contempt even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.010","4MA","1","M41_10","<span class='v M41_10' data-id='M41_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time on behalf of nobility and goodness; and for their honours, I may count them blessed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.011","4MA","1","M41_11","<span class='v M41_11' data-id='M41_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their courage and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.012","4MA","1","M41_12","<span class='v M41_12' data-id='M41_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our custom, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these people, giving glory to the all-wise God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.013","4MA","1","M41_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_13' data-id='M41_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Therefore the question whether reasoning is absolute master of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.014","4MA","1","M41_14","<span class='v M41_14' data-id='M41_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Let’s determine, then, what reasoning is and what emotion is, and how many forms of emotion there are, and whether reasoning rules over all of these. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.015","4MA","1","M41_15","<span class='v M41_15' data-id='M41_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Reasoning is intellect accompanied by a life of righteousness, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.016","4MA","1","M41_16","<span class='v M41_16' data-id='M41_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.017","4MA","1","M41_17","<span class='v M41_17' data-id='M41_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>This is contained in the education of the law, by means of which we learn divine things reverently and human things profitably. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.018","4MA","1","M41_18","<span class='v M41_18' data-id='M41_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>The forms of wisdom are self-control, justice, courage, and temperance. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.019","4MA","1","M41_19","<span class='v M41_19' data-id='M41_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>The leading one of these is self-control, by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning rules over the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.020","4MA","1","M41_20","<span class='v M41_20' data-id='M41_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Of the emotions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.021","4MA","1","M41_21","<span class='v M41_21' data-id='M41_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>There are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.022","4MA","1","M41_22","<span class='v M41_22' data-id='M41_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.023","4MA","1","M41_23","<span class='v M41_23' data-id='M41_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.024","4MA","1","M41_24","<span class='v M41_24' data-id='M41_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.025","4MA","1","M41_25","<span class='v M41_25' data-id='M41_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>There exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most complex of all the affections. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.026","4MA","1","M41_26","<span class='v M41_26' data-id='M41_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>In the soul, it is arrogance, love of money, thirst for honour, contention, faithlessness, and the evil eye. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.027","4MA","1","M41_27","<span class='v M41_27' data-id='M41_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>In the body, it is greediness, indiscriminate eating, and solitary gluttony. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.028","4MA","1","M41_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_28' data-id='M41_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growths out of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.029","4MA","1","M41_29","<span class='v M41_29' data-id='M41_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Reasoning, the universal farmer, purging and pruning each of these, tying up, watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.030","4MA","1","M41_30","<span class='v M41_30' data-id='M41_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the emotions. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_30' data-id='M41_30'>Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.031","4MA","1","M41_31","<span class='v M41_31' data-id='M41_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.032","4MA","1","M41_32","<span class='v M41_32' data-id='M41_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But of the lusts, some belong to the soul and others to the body. Reasoning appears to rule over both. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.033","4MA","1","M41_33","<span class='v M41_33' data-id='M41_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Otherwise, how is it that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would come from them? Isn’t it because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.034","4MA","1","M41_34","<span class='v M41_34' data-id='M41_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Hence it is, then, that when craving seafood, birds, four-footed animals, and all kinds of food which are forbidden to us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.001.035","4MA","1","M41_35","<span class='v M41_35' data-id='M41_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.001","4MA","2","M42_1","<div class='c'>2</div><div class='p'><span class='v M42_1' data-id='M42_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Is it any wonder? If the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.002","4MA","2","M42_2","<span class='v M42_2' data-id='M42_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of the senses. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.003","4MA","2","M42_3","<span class='v M42_3' data-id='M42_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he nullified by reasoning the stimulus of his emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.004","4MA","2","M42_4","<span class='v M42_4' data-id='M42_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>It isn’t merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.005","4MA","2","M42_5","<span class='v M42_5' data-id='M42_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For instance, the law says, “You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.006","4MA","2","M42_6","<span class='v M42_6' data-id='M42_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.007","4MA","2","M42_7","<span class='v M42_7' data-id='M42_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Since in what way is a solitary eater, a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it is clear that reasoning is lord of the emotions? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.008","4MA","2","M42_8","<span class='v M42_8' data-id='M42_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Therefore, a man who regulates his course by the law, even if he is a lover of money, immediately puts pressure on his own disposition by lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt on the seventh year. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.009","4MA","2","M42_9","<span class='v M42_9' data-id='M42_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>If a man is greedy, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning, so that he doesn’t glean his harvest crops or vintage. In reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.010","4MA","2","M42_10","<span class='v M42_10' data-id='M42_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For the law conquers even affection towards parents, not surrendering virtue on their account. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.011","4MA","2","M42_11","<span class='v M42_11' data-id='M42_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>It prevails over love for one’s wife, rebuking her when she breaks the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.012","4MA","2","M42_12","<span class='v M42_12' data-id='M42_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>It lords it over the love of parents towards their children, for they punish them for vice. It domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.013","4MA","2","M42_13","<span class='v M42_13' data-id='M42_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Don’t think it is a strange assertion that reasoning can on behalf of the law conquer even enmity. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.014","4MA","2","M42_14","<span class='v M42_14' data-id='M42_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>It doesn’t allow cutting down the fruit trees of an enemy, but preserves them from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.015","4MA","2","M42_15","<span class='v M42_15' data-id='M42_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Reason appears to be master of the more violent emotions, like love of empire, empty boasting, and slander. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.016","4MA","2","M42_16","<span class='v M42_16' data-id='M42_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant emotions, as it does wrath; for it masters even this. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.017","4MA","2","M42_17","<span class='v M42_17' data-id='M42_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.018","4MA","2","M42_18","<span class='v M42_18' data-id='M42_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the emotions, and to correct some and destroy others. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.019","4MA","2","M42_19","<span class='v M42_19' data-id='M42_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>For why else did our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, “Cursed be their anger!”? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.020","4MA","2","M42_20","<span class='v M42_20' data-id='M42_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have said this. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.021","4MA","2","M42_21","<span class='v M42_21' data-id='M42_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For at the time when God created man, he implanted within him his emotions and moral nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.022","4MA","2","M42_22","<span class='v M42_22' data-id='M42_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>At that time he enthroned the mind above all as the holy leader, through the medium of the senses. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.023","4MA","2","M42_23","<span class='v M42_23' data-id='M42_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, just, good, and courageous reign. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.002.024","4MA","2","M42_24","<span class='v M42_24' data-id='M42_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>How, then, a man may say, if reasoning is master of the emotions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.001","4MA","3","M43_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v M43_1' data-id='M43_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The argument is exceedingly ridiculous, for reasoning doesn’t appear to rule over its own affections, but over those of the body, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.002","4MA","3","M43_2","<span class='v M43_2' data-id='M43_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.003","4MA","3","M43_3","<span class='v M43_3' data-id='M43_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.004","4MA","3","M43_4","<span class='v M43_4' data-id='M43_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.005","4MA","3","M43_5","<span class='v M43_5' data-id='M43_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.006","4MA","3","M43_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M43_6' data-id='M43_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>This may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of King David. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.008","4MA","3","M43_8","<span class='v M43_8' data-id='M43_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, around which the entire army of our ancestors was encamped. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.009","4MA","3","M43_9","<span class='v M43_9' data-id='M43_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Now all the rest of them were at supper; </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.016","4MA","3","M43_16","<span class='v M43_16' data-id='M43_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Therefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the drink to God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.003.020","4MA","3","M43_20","<span class='v M43_20' data-id='M43_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.001","4MA","4","M44_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v M44_1' data-id='M44_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to an honourable and good man who once held the high priesthood for life, named Onias. After slandering Onias in every way, Simon couldn’t injure him with the people, so he went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.004","4MA","4","M44_4","<span class='v M44_4' data-id='M44_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Apollonius, acquainting himself with the particulars of this, praised Simon for his care of the king’s interests, and going up to Seleucus informed him of the treasure. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.005","4MA","4","M44_5","<span class='v M44_5' data-id='M44_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.011","4MA","4","M44_11","<span class='v M44_11' data-id='M44_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Apollonius fell half dead on the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and take away the wrath of the heavenly army. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.012","4MA","4","M44_12","<span class='v M44_12' data-id='M44_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death, and that if he were saved, he would proclaim to all people the blessedness of the holy place. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.014","4MA","4","M44_14","<span class='v M44_14' data-id='M44_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to report to the king what had happened to him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.016","4MA","4","M44_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M44_16' data-id='M44_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>He, having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.020","4MA","4","M44_20","<span class='v M44_20' data-id='M44_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, but neglected the guardianship of the temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.021","4MA","4","M44_21","<span class='v M44_21' data-id='M44_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Because of that, Divine vengeance was grieved and instigated Antiochus himself against them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.023","4MA","4","M44_23","<span class='v M44_23' data-id='M44_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the ancestral laws, he should die. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.004.026","4MA","4","M44_26","<span class='v M44_26' data-id='M44_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to renounce the Jewish religion. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.002","4MA","5","M45_2","<span class='v M45_2' data-id='M45_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh and things offered to idols. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.004","4MA","5","M45_4","<span class='v M45_4' data-id='M45_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>When many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king’s followers, was brought near to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.005","4MA","5","M45_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M45_5' data-id='M45_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Antiochus, seeing him, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.006","4MA","5","M45_6","<span class='v M45_6' data-id='M45_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.007","4MA","5","M45_7","<span class='v M45_7' data-id='M45_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>For therefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.008","4MA","5","M45_8","<span class='v M45_8' data-id='M45_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the gifts of nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.009","4MA","5","M45_9","<span class='v M45_9' data-id='M45_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>You will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.010","4MA","5","M45_10","<span class='v M45_10' data-id='M45_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>You will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.011","4MA","5","M45_11","<span class='v M45_11' data-id='M45_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Won’t you awake from your trifling philosophy, give up the folly of your notions, and regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.012","4MA","5","M45_12","<span class='v M45_12' data-id='M45_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Won’t you respect my kindly admonition and have pity on your own years? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.013","4MA","5","M45_13","<span class='v M45_13' data-id='M45_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>For bear in mind that if there is any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.014","4MA","5","M45_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M45_14' data-id='M45_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of meat, Eleazar begged permission to speak. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.015","4MA","5","M45_15","<span class='v M45_15' data-id='M45_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Having received permission to speak, he began to address the people as follows: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.020","4MA","5","M45_20","<span class='v M45_20' data-id='M45_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal importance; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.021","4MA","5","M45_21","<span class='v M45_21' data-id='M45_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>for in either case the law is equally slighted. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.022","4MA","5","M45_22","<span class='v M45_22' data-id='M45_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived in it irrationally. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.023","4MA","5","M45_23","<span class='v M45_23' data-id='M45_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Yet it instructs us in self-control, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it trains us in courage, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.024","4MA","5","M45_24","<span class='v M45_24' data-id='M45_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>It instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we render what is due. It teaches us piety, so that we properly worship the one and only God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.025","4MA","5","M45_25","<span class='v M45_25' data-id='M45_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>That is why we don’t eat the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathises with our nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.026","4MA","5","M45_26","<span class='v M45_26' data-id='M45_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Those things which are suitable for our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are not, he has forbidden. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.027","4MA","5","M45_27","<span class='v M45_27' data-id='M45_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.028","4MA","5","M45_28","<span class='v M45_28' data-id='M45_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But you won’t have this cause of laughter against me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.029","4MA","5","M45_29","<span class='v M45_29' data-id='M45_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.034","4MA","5","M45_34","<span class='v M45_34' data-id='M45_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>I will not play false to you, O law, my instructor, or forsake you, O beloved self-control! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.035","4MA","5","M45_35","<span class='v M45_35' data-id='M45_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason, or deny you, O honoured priesthood and knowledge of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.036","4MA","5","M45_36","<span class='v M45_36' data-id='M45_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Mouth! You shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.005.037","4MA","5","M45_37","<span class='v M45_37' data-id='M45_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>My ancestors will receive me as pure, not having feared your compulsion, even to death. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.007","4MA","6","M46_7","<span class='v M46_7' data-id='M46_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Falling on the ground from his body having no power to endure the pains, he still kept his reasoning upright and unbending. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.014","4MA","6","M46_14","<span class='v M46_14' data-id='M46_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.016","4MA","6","M46_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M46_16' data-id='M46_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.017","4MA","6","M46_17","<span class='v M46_17' data-id='M46_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“Let us who are children of Abraham not be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.019","4MA","6","M46_19","<span class='v M46_19' data-id='M46_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>and ourselves become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of eating pollution. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.020","4MA","6","M46_20","<span class='v M46_20' data-id='M46_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>It would be disgraceful if we would live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.021","4MA","6","M46_21","<span class='v M46_21' data-id='M46_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>and be condemned by the tyrant for cowardice by not contending to the death for our divine law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.022","4MA","6","M46_22","<span class='v M46_22' data-id='M46_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Therefore you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.024","4MA","6","M46_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M46_24' data-id='M46_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.025","4MA","6","M46_25","<span class='v M46_25' data-id='M46_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.026","4MA","6","M46_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M46_26' data-id='M46_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>He being at length burnt down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.027","4MA","6","M46_27","<span class='v M46_27' data-id='M46_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>“You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.028","4MA","6","M46_28","<span class='v M46_28' data-id='M46_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.029","4MA","6","M46_29","<span class='v M46_29' data-id='M46_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in exchange for theirs.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.030","4MA","6","M46_30","<span class='v M46_30' data-id='M46_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.031","4MA","6","M46_31","<span class='v M46_31' data-id='M46_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.032","4MA","6","M46_32","<span class='v M46_32' data-id='M46_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>For had the emotions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.034","4MA","6","M46_34","<span class='v M46_34' data-id='M46_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>It is only fair that we should allow that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.006.035","4MA","6","M46_35","<span class='v M46_35' data-id='M46_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>It would be ridiculous if it weren’t so. I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.002","4MA","7","M47_2","<span class='v M47_2' data-id='M47_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.004","4MA","7","M47_4","<span class='v M47_4' data-id='M47_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>No beseiged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.005","4MA","7","M47_5","<span class='v M47_5' data-id='M47_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the emotions as with a jutting cliff. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.006","4MA","7","M47_6","<span class='v M47_6' data-id='M47_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>O priest worthy of the priesthood! You didn’t pollute your sacred teeth, nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.007","4MA","7","M47_7","<span class='v M47_7' data-id='M47_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.008","4MA","7","M47_8","<span class='v M47_8' data-id='M47_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.009","4MA","7","M47_9","<span class='v M47_9' data-id='M47_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our past service, prevented its destruction, and by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.010","4MA","7","M47_10","<span class='v M47_10' data-id='M47_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigourous than fire, greatest king over the emotions, Eleazar! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.011","4MA","7","M47_11","<span class='v M47_11' data-id='M47_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.012","4MA","7","M47_12","<span class='v M47_12' data-id='M47_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.014","4MA","7","M47_14","<span class='v M47_14' data-id='M47_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed rack. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.015","4MA","7","M47_15","<span class='v M47_15' data-id='M47_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.016","4MA","7","M47_16","<span class='v M47_16' data-id='M47_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, then certainly religious reasoning is ruler of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.017","4MA","7","M47_17","<span class='v M47_17' data-id='M47_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>But perhaps some might say, “It is not all who conquer emotions, as not all possess wise reasoning.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.019","4MA","7","M47_19","<span class='v M47_19' data-id='M47_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>they who believe that to God they don’t die; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they live to God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.021","4MA","7","M47_21","<span class='v M47_21' data-id='M47_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.022","4MA","7","M47_22","<span class='v M47_22' data-id='M47_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his emotion? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.024","4MA","7","M47_24","<span class='v M47_24' data-id='M47_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.007.025","4MA","7","M47_25","<span class='v M47_25' data-id='M47_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.001","4MA","8","M48_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='nb'><span class='v M48_1' data-id='M48_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>then, indeed, vehemently swayed with emotion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.002","4MA","8","M48_2","<span class='v M48_2' data-id='M48_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The tyrant having given this charge, seven kindred were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother. They were handsome, modest, well-born, and altogether comely. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.003","4MA","8","M48_3","<span class='v M48_3' data-id='M48_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>When the tyrant saw them encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased with them. Being struck with their becoming and innocent manner, smiled at them, and calling them near, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.004","4MA","8","M48_4","<span class='v M48_4' data-id='M48_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you. Greatly honouring so numerous a band of kindred, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.005","4MA","8","M48_5","<span class='v M48_5' data-id='M48_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>but I beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.006","4MA","8","M48_6","<span class='v M48_6' data-id='M48_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Put confidence in me, then, and you will receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national way of life, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.007","4MA","8","M48_7","<span class='v M48_7' data-id='M48_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and, conforming to the Greek way of life, alter your rule and revel in youth’s delights. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.008","4MA","8","M48_8","<span class='v M48_8' data-id='M48_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy every one of you with terrible punishments by tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.009","4MA","8","M48_9","<span class='v M48_9' data-id='M48_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, am compassionate for your age and attractive appearance. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.010","4MA","8","M48_10","<span class='v M48_10' data-id='M48_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Won’t you consider this: that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in torture?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.011","4MA","8","M48_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M48_11' data-id='M48_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>When he had said this, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.012","4MA","8","M48_12","<span class='v M48_12' data-id='M48_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When the spearman brought forward the wheels, the racks, the hooks, racks, cauldrons, pans, finger-racks, iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continued: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.013","4MA","8","M48_13","<span class='v M48_13' data-id='M48_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>“Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you worship will be merciful to you if you transgress because of compulsion.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.014","4MA","8","M48_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M48_14' data-id='M48_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.015","4MA","8","M48_15","<span class='v M48_15' data-id='M48_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now let’s consider the matter. Had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly amongst them, what reasoning would they have employed but these? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.017","4MA","8","M48_17","<span class='v M48_17' data-id='M48_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.008.019","4MA","8","M48_19","<span class='v M48_19' data-id='M48_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Let’s have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.004","4MA","9","M49_4","<span class='v M49_4' data-id='M49_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>For we consider your escape to be worse than death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.005","4MA","9","M49_5","<span class='v M49_5' data-id='M49_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>You try to scare us by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learnt nothing by the death of Eleazar. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.018","4MA","9","M49_18","<span class='v M49_18' data-id='M49_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered on behalf of virtue.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.024","4MA","9","M49_24","<span class='v M49_24' data-id='M49_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.025","4MA","9","M49_25","<span class='v M49_25' data-id='M49_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.028","4MA","9","M49_28","<span class='v M49_28' data-id='M49_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>After they with the iron gauntlets had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like animals tore off the very skin of his head, but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.009.031","4MA","9","M49_31","<span class='v M49_31' data-id='M49_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.001","4MA","10","M410_1","<div class='c'>10</div><div class='p'><span class='v M410_1' data-id='M410_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Now this one endured this praiseworthy death. The third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.006","4MA","10","M410_6","<span class='v M410_6' data-id='M410_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>They dragged around his fingers, his arms, his legs, and his ankles. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.008","4MA","10","M410_8","<span class='v M410_8' data-id='M410_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.009","4MA","10","M410_9","<span class='v M410_9' data-id='M410_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>When about to die, he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.010","4MA","10","M410_10","<span class='v M410_10' data-id='M410_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>“We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.017","4MA","10","M410_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M410_17' data-id='M410_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, murderous, and unholy Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.010.018","4MA","10","M410_18","<span class='v M410_18' data-id='M410_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But he said, “Even if you take away the organ of speech, God still hears the silent. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.002","4MA","11","M411_2","<span class='v M411_2' data-id='M411_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is on behalf of virtue. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.004","4MA","11","M411_4","<span class='v M411_4' data-id='M411_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.005","4MA","11","M411_5","<span class='v M411_5' data-id='M411_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.006","4MA","11","M411_6","<span class='v M411_6' data-id='M411_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But this is worthy of honours, not torments, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.008","4MA","11","M411_8","<span class='v M411_8' data-id='M411_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious towards God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.009","4MA","11","M411_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M411_9' data-id='M411_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>As he said this, the spearbearers bound him and drew him to the rack, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.011","4MA","11","M411_11","<span class='v M411_11' data-id='M411_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.024","4MA","11","M411_24","<span class='v M411_24' data-id='M411_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.025","4MA","11","M411_25","<span class='v M411_25' data-id='M411_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.026","4MA","11","M411_26","<span class='v M411_26' data-id='M411_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.011.027","4MA","11","M411_27","<span class='v M411_27' data-id='M411_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders. Through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.002","4MA","12","M412_2","<span class='v M412_2' data-id='M412_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.003","4MA","12","M412_3","<span class='v M412_3' data-id='M412_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.004","4MA","12","M412_4","<span class='v M412_4' data-id='M412_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“You see the end of the madness of your kindred, for they have died in torture through disobedience. You, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.006","4MA","12","M412_6","<span class='v M412_6' data-id='M412_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Having thus exhorted him, he sent for the boy’s mother, that, by showing compassion to her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.007","4MA","12","M412_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M412_7' data-id='M412_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>He, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we will soon relate) said, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.010","4MA","12","M412_10","<span class='v M412_10' data-id='M412_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>He, running up to the pans, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.011","4MA","12","M412_11","<span class='v M412_11' data-id='M412_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.012","4MA","12","M412_12","<span class='v M412_12' data-id='M412_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Therefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which will cling to you for all time. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.012.018","4MA","12","M412_18","<span class='v M412_18' data-id='M412_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.002","4MA","13","M413_2","<span class='v M413_2' data-id='M413_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For just as if they had eaten of the unholy as slaves to the emotions, we would have said that they had been conquered by them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.003","4MA","13","M413_3","<span class='v M413_3' data-id='M413_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Now it is not so. But by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.004","4MA","13","M413_4","<span class='v M413_4' data-id='M413_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>It is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection, for it gained the victory over both emotions and troubles. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.005","4MA","13","M413_5","<span class='v M413_5' data-id='M413_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of emotion through right reasoning, since they didn’t withdraw from the pains of fire? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.006","4MA","13","M413_6","<span class='v M413_6' data-id='M413_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.007","4MA","13","M413_7","<span class='v M413_7' data-id='M413_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the tempest of emotions. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.009","4MA","13","M413_9","<span class='v M413_9' data-id='M413_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>“Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.014","4MA","13","M413_14","<span class='v M413_14' data-id='M413_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Let’s not fear him who thinks he kills; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.015","4MA","13","M413_15","<span class='v M413_15' data-id='M413_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.016","4MA","13","M413_16","<span class='v M413_16' data-id='M413_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Let’s arm ourselves, therefore, in the self-control, which is divine reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.017","4MA","13","M413_17","<span class='v M413_17' data-id='M413_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>If we suffer like this, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.018","4MA","13","M413_18","<span class='v M413_18' data-id='M413_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>As each one of the kindred was hauled away, the rest exclaimed, “Don’t disgrace us, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.019","4MA","13","M413_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M413_19' data-id='M413_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.020","4MA","13","M413_20","<span class='v M413_20' data-id='M413_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.021","4MA","13","M413_21","<span class='v M413_21' data-id='M413_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same springs, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.022","4MA","13","M413_22","<span class='v M413_22' data-id='M413_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily companionship, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.023","4MA","13","M413_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M413_23' data-id='M413_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven kindred had a more sympathetic mutual harmony. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.024","4MA","13","M413_24","<span class='v M413_24' data-id='M413_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.025","4MA","13","M413_25","<span class='v M413_25' data-id='M413_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For the same ardour for what is right and honourable increased their goodwill and harmony towards each other. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.026","4MA","13","M413_26","<span class='v M413_26' data-id='M413_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.013.027","4MA","13","M413_27","<span class='v M413_27' data-id='M413_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>And yet, although nature, companionship, and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love, those who were left endured to see their kindred, who were mistreated for their religion, tortured even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.001","4MA","14","M414_1","<div class='c'>14</div><div class='p'><span class='v M414_1' data-id='M414_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>More that this, they even urged them on to this mistreatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.002","4MA","14","M414_2","<span class='v M414_2' data-id='M414_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Reasoning is more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.003","4MA","14","M414_3","<span class='v M414_3' data-id='M414_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>What a sacred and harmonious concert of the seven kindred as concerning piety! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.004","4MA","14","M414_4","<span class='v M414_4' data-id='M414_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>None of the seven youths turned cowardly or shrank back from death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.005","4MA","14","M414_5","<span class='v M414_5' data-id='M414_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.006","4MA","14","M414_6","<span class='v M414_6' data-id='M414_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed to death for religion’s sake, as through the immortal soul of religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.007","4MA","14","M414_7","<span class='v M414_7' data-id='M414_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O holy seven of harmonious kindred! For as the seven days of creation, about religion, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.008","4MA","14","M414_8","<span class='v M414_8' data-id='M414_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.009","4MA","14","M414_9","<span class='v M414_9' data-id='M414_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.010","4MA","14","M414_10","<span class='v M414_10' data-id='M414_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>What could be more painful? For the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.011","4MA","14","M414_11","<span class='v M414_11' data-id='M414_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Don’t think it wonderful that reasoning ruled over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.012","4MA","14","M414_12","<span class='v M414_12' data-id='M414_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.013","4MA","14","M414_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M414_13' data-id='M414_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.014","4MA","14","M414_14","<span class='v M414_14' data-id='M414_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.015","4MA","14","M414_15","<span class='v M414_15' data-id='M414_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses defend their fledglings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.016","4MA","14","M414_16","<span class='v M414_16' data-id='M414_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Others build their nests, and hatch their young, on the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep away the intruder. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.017","4MA","14","M414_17","<span class='v M414_17' data-id='M414_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>If not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.018","4MA","14","M414_18","<span class='v M414_18' data-id='M414_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But why should we point attention to the sympathy towards children shown by irrational animals? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.019","4MA","14","M414_19","<span class='v M414_19' data-id='M414_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Even bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach, and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.014.020","4MA","14","M414_20","<span class='v M414_20' data-id='M414_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>But sympathy with her children didn’t turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.001","4MA","15","M415_1","<div class='c'>15</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_1' data-id='M415_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>O reasoning of the sons, lord over the emotions, and religion more desirable to a mother than children! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.002","4MA","15","M415_2","<span class='v M415_2' data-id='M415_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The mother, when two things were set before her, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.003","4MA","15","M415_3","<span class='v M415_3' data-id='M415_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.004","4MA","15","M415_4","<span class='v M415_4' data-id='M415_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>In what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents towards their children, the resemblance of soul and of form impressed into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.005","4MA","15","M415_5","<span class='v M415_5' data-id='M415_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.006","4MA","15","M415_6","<span class='v M415_6' data-id='M415_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Of all mothers, the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love towards them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.007","4MA","15","M415_7","<span class='v M415_7' data-id='M415_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, she was compelled to feel sympathy with them; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.008","4MA","15","M415_8","<span class='v M415_8' data-id='M415_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.009","4MA","15","M415_9","<span class='v M415_9' data-id='M415_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Not only so, but on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection towards them was increased. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.010","4MA","15","M415_10","<span class='v M415_10' data-id='M415_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For they were both just and temperate, and courageous, high-minded, fond of their kindred, and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.011","4MA","15","M415_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_11' data-id='M415_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.012","4MA","15","M415_12","<span class='v M415_12' data-id='M415_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.013","4MA","15","M415_13","<span class='v M415_13' data-id='M415_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.014","4MA","15","M415_14","<span class='v M415_14' data-id='M415_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.015","4MA","15","M415_15","<span class='v M415_15' data-id='M415_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>She saw her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire, and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.016","4MA","15","M415_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_16' data-id='M415_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those at birth! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.017","4MA","15","M415_17","<span class='v M415_17' data-id='M415_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>O you only woman who have produced perfect holiness! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.018","4MA","15","M415_18","<span class='v M415_18' data-id='M415_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Your firstborn, expiring, didn’t turn you, nor the second, looking miserable in his torments, nor the third, breathing out his soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.019","4MA","15","M415_19","<span class='v M415_19' data-id='M415_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>You didn’t weep when you saw each of their eyes looking sternly at their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.020","4MA","15","M415_20","<span class='v M415_20' data-id='M415_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>When you saw children’s flesh heaped upon children’s flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, you didn’t lament. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.021","4MA","15","M415_21","<span class='v M415_21' data-id='M415_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Not so do siren melodies or songs of swans attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.022","4MA","15","M415_22","<span class='v M415_22' data-id='M415_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.023","4MA","15","M415_23","<span class='v M415_23' data-id='M415_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.024","4MA","15","M415_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_24' data-id='M415_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Although seeing the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.025","4MA","15","M415_25","<span class='v M415_25' data-id='M415_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For just as in a council room, seeing in her own soul vehement counsellors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.026","4MA","15","M415_26","<span class='v M415_26' data-id='M415_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.027","4MA","15","M415_27","<span class='v M415_27' data-id='M415_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>didn’t lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.028","4MA","15","M415_28","<span class='v M415_28' data-id='M415_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.029","4MA","15","M415_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_29' data-id='M415_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>O holy mother of a nation, avenger of the law, defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.030","4MA","15","M415_30","<span class='v M415_30' data-id='M415_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>O you nobler in endurance than males, and more courageous than men in perseverance! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.031","4MA","15","M415_31","<span class='v M415_31' data-id='M415_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.015.032","4MA","15","M415_32","<span class='v M415_32' data-id='M415_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emotions, and assaulted by violent storms which were the torments of your children, bore up nobly against the storms against religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.001","4MA","16","M416_1","<div class='c'>16</div><div class='p'><span class='v M416_1' data-id='M416_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, it must be admitted that religious reasoning is master even of the emotions. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.002","4MA","16","M416_2","<span class='v M416_2' data-id='M416_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their emotions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.003","4MA","16","M416_3","<span class='v M416_3' data-id='M416_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span> The lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burnt within her, when she saw her seven sons tortured. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.004","4MA","16","M416_4","<span class='v M416_4' data-id='M416_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched emotions so great and powerful. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.005","4MA","16","M416_5","<span class='v M416_5' data-id='M416_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their mother, she would have lamented over them, and perhaps might have spoken thus: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.006","4MA","16","M416_6","<span class='v M416_6' data-id='M416_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“Ah! I am wretched and many times miserable, who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.007","4MA","16","M416_7","<span class='v M416_7' data-id='M416_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labour, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.008","4MA","16","M416_8","<span class='v M416_8' data-id='M416_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.009","4MA","16","M416_9","<span class='v M416_9' data-id='M416_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I will not see your children, nor have the joy of being a grandmother. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.010","4MA","16","M416_10","<span class='v M416_10' data-id='M416_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.011","4MA","16","M416_11","<span class='v M416_11' data-id='M416_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Nor, should I die, will I have a son to bury me.” But with such a lament as this, the holy and God-fearing mother wept for none of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.012","4MA","16","M416_12","<span class='v M416_12' data-id='M416_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.013","4MA","16","M416_13","<span class='v M416_13' data-id='M416_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>But as one possessed with an adamant mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather urged them to death on behalf of religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.014","4MA","16","M416_14","<span class='v M416_14' data-id='M416_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and even though weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.016","4MA","16","M416_16","<span class='v M416_16' data-id='M416_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“O sons, the contest is noble, to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.017","4MA","16","M416_17","<span class='v M416_17' data-id='M416_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For it would be disgraceful if this old man endured pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger would be afraid of the tortures. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.020","4MA","16","M416_20","<span class='v M416_20' data-id='M416_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For him also our father Abraham was zealous to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and didn’t shudder at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.021","4MA","16","M416_21","<span class='v M416_21' data-id='M416_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>The righteous Daniel was cast to the lions; and Ananias, Azarias, and Misael were hurled into a fiery furnace, yet they endured through God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.022","4MA","16","M416_22","<span class='v M416_22' data-id='M416_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>You, then, having the same faith towards God, don’t be troubled. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.023","4MA","16","M416_23","<span class='v M416_23' data-id='M416_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For it is unreasonable that they who know religion wouldn’t stand up against troubles. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.024","4MA","16","M416_24","<span class='v M416_24' data-id='M416_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, encouraged and persuaded them not to transgress God’s commandment. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.016.025","4MA","16","M416_25","<span class='v M416_25' data-id='M416_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>They saw this, too, that those who die for God, live to God, like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the patriarchs. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.001","4MA","17","M417_1","<div class='c'>17</div><div class='p'><span class='v M417_1' data-id='M417_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Some of the spearbearers said that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself on the pile, rather than let them touch her body. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.002","4MA","17","M417_2","<span class='v M417_2' data-id='M417_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>O you mother, who together with seven children destroyed the violence of the tyrant, and rendered void his wicked intentions, and exhibited the nobleness of faith! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.003","4MA","17","M417_3","<span class='v M417_3' data-id='M417_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>For you, like a house bravely built on the pillar of your children, bore the shock of tortures without swaying. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.004","4MA","17","M417_4","<span class='v M417_4' data-id='M417_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Cheer up, therefore, O holy-minded mother! Hold the firm hope of your steadfastness with God. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.005","4MA","17","M417_5","<span class='v M417_5' data-id='M417_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established as honourable before God, and fixed in the sky with your sons whom you illuminated with religion to the stars. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.006","4MA","17","M417_6","<span class='v M417_6' data-id='M417_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For your bearing of children was after the manner of a child of Abraham. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.007","4MA","17","M417_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M417_7' data-id='M417_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>If it were lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators wouldn’t shudder at seeing the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.008","4MA","17","M417_8","<span class='v M417_8' data-id='M417_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>It would have been a worthwhile thing to have inscribed on the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.009","4MA","17","M417_9","<span class='v M417_9' data-id='M417_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>“Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.010","4MA","17","M417_10","<span class='v M417_10' data-id='M417_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.011","4MA","17","M417_11","<span class='v M417_11' data-id='M417_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.012","4MA","17","M417_12","<span class='v M417_12' data-id='M417_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.014","4MA","17","M417_14","<span class='v M417_14' data-id='M417_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The tyrant was the antagonist; and the world and living men were the spectators. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.015","4MA","17","M417_15","<span class='v M417_15' data-id='M417_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.016","4MA","17","M417_16","<span class='v M417_16' data-id='M417_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Who didn’t admire those champions of true legislation? Who were not amazed? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.017","4MA","17","M417_17","<span class='v M417_17' data-id='M417_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.018","4MA","17","M417_18","<span class='v M417_18' data-id='M417_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>through which, they also now stand beside the divine throne and live a blessed life. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.020","4MA","17","M417_20","<span class='v M417_20' data-id='M417_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by the fact that because of them, the enemy didn’t overcome our nation. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.021","4MA","17","M417_21","<span class='v M417_21' data-id='M417_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>That tyrant was punished and their country purified. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.022","4MA","17","M417_22","<span class='v M417_22' data-id='M417_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation. The Divine Providence saved Israel, which was afflicted before, by the blood of those pious ones and the death that appeased wrath. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.017.023","4MA","17","M417_23","<span class='v M417_23' data-id='M417_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their courageous virtue and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.001","4MA","18","M418_1","<div class='c'>18</div><div class='p'><span class='v M418_1' data-id='M418_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>O Israelite children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law and in every way be religious, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.002","4MA","18","M418_2","<span class='v M418_2' data-id='M418_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the emotions, and those not only inward but outward. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.009","4MA","18","M418_9","<span class='v M418_9' data-id='M418_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>When these, my children, arrived at maturity, their father died. He was blessed! For having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.020","4MA","18","M418_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M418_20' data-id='M418_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel cauldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the rack, and to all his torments! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.021","4MA","18","M418_21","<span class='v M418_21' data-id='M418_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.022","4MA","18","M418_22","<span class='v M418_22' data-id='M418_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("059.018.023","4MA","18","M418_23","<span class='v M418_23' data-id='M418_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father, having received pure and immortal souls from God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.001","DAG","1","DG1_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG1_1' data-id='DG1_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.004","DAG","1","DG1_4","<span class='v DG1_4' data-id='DG1_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>youths in whom was no defect, but well-favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to serve in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.005","DAG","1","DG1_5","<span class='v DG1_5' data-id='DG1_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s delicacies, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should serve the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.006","DAG","1","DG1_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG1_6' data-id='DG1_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Now amongst these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.010","DAG","1","DG1_10","<span class='v DG1_10' data-id='DG1_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.013","DAG","1","DG1_13","<span class='v DG1_13' data-id='DG1_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then let our faces be examined before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s delicacies; and as you see, deal with your servants.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.016","DAG","1","DG1_16","<span class='v DG1_16' data-id='DG1_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>So the steward took away their delicacies, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them vegetables. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.017","DAG","1","DG1_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG1_17' data-id='DG1_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.018","DAG","1","DG1_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG1_18' data-id='DG1_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.019","DAG","1","DG1_19","<span class='v DG1_19' data-id='DG1_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>The king talked with them; and amongst them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they served the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.020","DAG","1","DG1_20","<span class='v DG1_20' data-id='DG1_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.001.021","DAG","1","DG1_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG1_21' data-id='DG1_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Daniel continued serving even to the first year of King Cyrus. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.001","DAG","2","DG2_1","<div class='c'>2</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_1' data-id='DG2_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamt dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.002","DAG","2","DG2_2","<span class='v DG2_2' data-id='DG2_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.003","DAG","2","DG2_3","<span class='v DG2_3' data-id='DG2_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>The king said to them, “I have dreamt a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.004","DAG","2","DG2_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_4' data-id='DG2_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.005","DAG","2","DG2_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_5' data-id='DG2_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.006","DAG","2","DG2_6","<span class='v DG2_6' data-id='DG2_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honour. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.007","DAG","2","DG2_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_7' data-id='DG2_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.008","DAG","2","DG2_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_8' data-id='DG2_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.009","DAG","2","DG2_9","<span class='v DG2_9' data-id='DG2_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.010","DAG","2","DG2_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_10' data-id='DG2_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or Chaldean. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.011","DAG","2","DG2_11","<span class='v DG2_11' data-id='DG2_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.012","DAG","2","DG2_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_12' data-id='DG2_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.013","DAG","2","DG2_13","<span class='v DG2_13' data-id='DG2_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.014","DAG","2","DG2_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_14' data-id='DG2_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.015","DAG","2","DG2_15","<span class='v DG2_15' data-id='DG2_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.016","DAG","2","DG2_16","<span class='v DG2_16' data-id='DG2_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.017","DAG","2","DG2_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_17' data-id='DG2_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.018","DAG","2","DG2_18","<span class='v DG2_18' data-id='DG2_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.019","DAG","2","DG2_19","<span class='v DG2_19' data-id='DG2_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.020","DAG","2","DG2_20","<span class='v DG2_20' data-id='DG2_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Daniel answered, </span></div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_20' data-id='DG2_20'>“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_20' data-id='DG2_20'>for wisdom and might are his. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.021","DAG","2","DG2_21","</div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_21' data-id='DG2_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>He changes the times and the seasons. </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_21' data-id='DG2_21'>He removes kings and sets up kings. </span></div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_21' data-id='DG2_21'>He gives wisdom to the wise, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_21' data-id='DG2_21'>and knowledge to those who have understanding. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.022","DAG","2","DG2_22","</div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_22' data-id='DG2_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>He reveals the deep and secret things. </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_22' data-id='DG2_22'>He knows what is in the darkness, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_22' data-id='DG2_22'>and the light dwells with him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.023","DAG","2","DG2_23","</div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_23' data-id='DG2_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>I thank you and praise you, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_23' data-id='DG2_23'>O God of my fathers, </span></div><div class='q'><span class='v DG2_23' data-id='DG2_23'>who have given me wisdom and might, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_23' data-id='DG2_23'>and have now made known to me what we desired of you; </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v DG2_23' data-id='DG2_23'>for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.024","DAG","2","DG2_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_24' data-id='DG2_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.025","DAG","2","DG2_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_25' data-id='DG2_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.026","DAG","2","DG2_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_26' data-id='DG2_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.027","DAG","2","DG2_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_27' data-id='DG2_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.028","DAG","2","DG2_28","<span class='v DG2_28' data-id='DG2_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.029","DAG","2","DG2_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_29' data-id='DG2_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.030","DAG","2","DG2_30","<span class='v DG2_30' data-id='DG2_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.031","DAG","2","DG2_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_31' data-id='DG2_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“You, O king, saw, and behold,<span class='note' id='footnote-1387'><a href='#note-1387' class='key'>*</a></span> a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.032","DAG","2","DG2_32","<span class='v DG2_32' data-id='DG2_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.033","DAG","2","DG2_33","<span class='v DG2_33' data-id='DG2_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.034","DAG","2","DG2_34","<span class='v DG2_34' data-id='DG2_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.035","DAG","2","DG2_35","<span class='v DG2_35' data-id='DG2_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.036","DAG","2","DG2_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_36' data-id='DG2_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>“This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.037","DAG","2","DG2_37","<span class='v DG2_37' data-id='DG2_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.038","DAG","2","DG2_38","<span class='v DG2_38' data-id='DG2_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.039","DAG","2","DG2_39","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_39' data-id='DG2_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>“After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and a third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.040","DAG","2","DG2_40","<span class='v DG2_40' data-id='DG2_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.041","DAG","2","DG2_41","<span class='v DG2_41' data-id='DG2_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.042","DAG","2","DG2_42","<span class='v DG2_42' data-id='DG2_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly brittle. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.043","DAG","2","DG2_43","<span class='v DG2_43' data-id='DG2_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.044","DAG","2","DG2_44","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_44' data-id='DG2_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.045","DAG","2","DG2_45","<span class='v DG2_45' data-id='DG2_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.046","DAG","2","DG2_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_46' data-id='DG2_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odours to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.047","DAG","2","DG2_47","<span class='v DG2_47' data-id='DG2_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealler of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.048","DAG","2","DG2_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG2_48' data-id='DG2_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.002.049","DAG","2","DG2_49","<span class='v DG2_49' data-id='DG2_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.001","DAG","3","DG3_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_1' data-id='DG3_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits,<span class='note' id='footnote-1388'><a href='#note-1388' class='key'>*</a></span> and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.002","DAG","3","DG3_2","<span class='v DG3_2' data-id='DG3_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.003","DAG","3","DG3_3","<span class='v DG3_3' data-id='DG3_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.004","DAG","3","DG3_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_4' data-id='DG3_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.005","DAG","3","DG3_5","<span class='v DG3_5' data-id='DG3_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.006","DAG","3","DG3_6","<span class='v DG3_6' data-id='DG3_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.007","DAG","3","DG3_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_7' data-id='DG3_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.008","DAG","3","DG3_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_8' data-id='DG3_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.009","DAG","3","DG3_9","<span class='v DG3_9' data-id='DG3_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.010","DAG","3","DG3_10","<span class='v DG3_10' data-id='DG3_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music shall fall down and worship the golden image; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.011","DAG","3","DG3_11","<span class='v DG3_11' data-id='DG3_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.012","DAG","3","DG3_12","<span class='v DG3_12' data-id='DG3_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.013","DAG","3","DG3_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_13' data-id='DG3_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.014","DAG","3","DG3_14","<span class='v DG3_14' data-id='DG3_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Nebuchadnezzar answered them, “Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.015","DAG","3","DG3_15","<span class='v DG3_15' data-id='DG3_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out of my hands?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.016","DAG","3","DG3_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_16' data-id='DG3_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.017","DAG","3","DG3_17","<span class='v DG3_17' data-id='DG3_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.018","DAG","3","DG3_18","<span class='v DG3_18' data-id='DG3_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.019","DAG","3","DG3_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_19' data-id='DG3_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.020","DAG","3","DG3_20","<span class='v DG3_20' data-id='DG3_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.021","DAG","3","DG3_21","<span class='v DG3_21' data-id='DG3_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.022","DAG","3","DG3_22","<span class='v DG3_22' data-id='DG3_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.023","DAG","3","DG3_23","<span class='v DG3_23' data-id='DG3_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.024","DAG","3","DG3_24","</div><div class='s'>THE SONG OF THE THREE HOLY CHILDREN<span class='note' id='footnote-1389'><a href='#note-1389' class='key'>†</a></span><span class='bk'></span><span class='bk'></span><span class='bk'></span> </div><div class='p'><span class='v DG3_24' data-id='DG3_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>They walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.025","DAG","3","DG3_25","<span class='v DG3_25' data-id='DG3_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Then Azarias stood, and prayed like this. Opening his mouth in the midst of the fire he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.026","DAG","3","DG3_26","<span class='v DG3_26' data-id='DG3_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers! Your name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.027","DAG","3","DG3_27","<span class='v DG3_27' data-id='DG3_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>for you are righteous in all the things that you have done. Yes, all your works are true. Your ways are right, and all your judgements are truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.028","DAG","3","DG3_28","<span class='v DG3_28' data-id='DG3_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>In all the things that you have brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, Jerusalem, you have executed true judgements. For according to truth and justice you have brought all these things upon us because of our sins. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.029","DAG","3","DG3_29","<span class='v DG3_29' data-id='DG3_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>For we have sinned and committed iniquity in departing from you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.030","DAG","3","DG3_30","<span class='v DG3_30' data-id='DG3_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>In all things we have trespassed, and not obeyed your commandments or kept them. We haven’t done as you have commanded us, that it might go well with us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.031","DAG","3","DG3_31","<span class='v DG3_31' data-id='DG3_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Therefore all that you have brought upon us, and everything that you have done to us, you have done in true judgement. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.032","DAG","3","DG3_32","<span class='v DG3_32' data-id='DG3_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.033","DAG","3","DG3_33","<span class='v DG3_33' data-id='DG3_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.034","DAG","3","DG3_34","<span class='v DG3_34' data-id='DG3_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Don’t utterly deliver us up, for your name’s sake. Don’t annul your covenant. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.035","DAG","3","DG3_35","<span class='v DG3_35' data-id='DG3_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Don’t cause your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham who is loved by you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.036","DAG","3","DG3_36","<span class='v DG3_36' data-id='DG3_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>to whom you promised that you would multiply their offspring as the stars of the sky, and as the sand that is on the sea shore. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.037","DAG","3","DG3_37","<span class='v DG3_37' data-id='DG3_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>For we, O Lord, have become less than any nation, and are brought low this day in all the world because of our sins. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.038","DAG","3","DG3_38","<span class='v DG3_38' data-id='DG3_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>There isn’t at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to offer before you, and to find mercy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("066.003.039","DAG","3","DG3_39","<span class='v DG3_39' data-id='DG3_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted, </span>");
