Deuteronomy 31:30-32:14

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³⁰Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete:

The Song of Moses

32 “^(A)Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!
²^(B)May my teaching drip as the rain,
My speech trickle as the dew,
^(C)As droplets on the fresh grass,
And as the showers on the vegetation.
³^(D)For I proclaim the name of the Lord;
^(E)Ascribe greatness to our God!
⁴^(F)The Rock! His work is perfect,
^(G)For all His ways are ^[a]just;
^(H)A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and just is He.
⁵^[b]^(I)They have acted corruptly against Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
^(J)But are a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶Is this what you ^(K)do to the Lord,
^(L)You foolish and unwise people?
^(M)Is He not your Father who has purchased you?
^(N)He has made you and established you.
⁷Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
^(O)Ask your father and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸^(P)When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of ^[c]mankind,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
^(Q)According to the number of the ^[d]sons of Israel.
⁹^(R)For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
¹⁰^(S)He found him in a desert land,
And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as ^(T)the ^[e]apple of His eye.
¹¹^(U)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
And hovers over its young,
^(V)He spread His wings, He caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
¹²^(W)The Lord alone guided him,
^(X)And there was no foreign god with him.
¹³^(Y)He had him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
^(Z)And He had him suck honey from the rock,
And ^[f]^(AA)oil from the flinty rock,
¹⁴Curds of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats,
^(AB)With the best of the wheat;
And you drank wine of the ^(AC)blood of grapes.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 32:4 Or judgment
Deuteronomy 32:5 Lit It has
Deuteronomy 32:8 Or Adam
Deuteronomy 32:8 As in MT; DSS sons of God; LXX angels of God
Deuteronomy 32:10 Lit pupil
Deuteronomy 32:13 I.e., olive oil

Acts 19:8-20

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⁸And he entered ^(A)the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, having discussions and persuading them ^(B)about the kingdom of God. ⁹But when ^(C)some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of ^[a]^(D)the Way before the ^[b]people, he withdrew from them and took ^(E)the disciples away with him, and had discussions daily in the school of Tyrannus. ¹⁰This took place for ^(F)two years, so that all who lived in ^[c]^(G)Asia heard ^(H)the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Miracles at Ephesus

¹¹God was performing ^(I)extraordinary ^[d]miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹²^(J)so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and ^(K)the evil spirits went out. ¹³But also some of the Jewish ^(L)exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to ^[e]use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!” ¹⁴Now there were seven sons of ^[f]Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this. ¹⁵But the evil spirit responded and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷This became known to all who lived in ^(M)Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. ¹⁸Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. ¹⁹And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of ^[g]the books and found it to be fifty thousand ^[h]^(N)pieces of silver. ²⁰So ^[i]^(O)the word of the Lord ^(P)was growing and prevailing mightily.

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Footnotes

Acts 19:9 See John 14:6
Acts 19:9 Lit multitude
Acts 19:10 I.e., west coast province of Asia Minor
Acts 19:11 Or works of power
Acts 19:13 I.e., as an incantation
Acts 19:14 Lit some Sceva
Acts 19:19 Lit them
Acts 19:19 Prob. Greek drachmas; a drachma was a day’s wages for a laborer
Acts 19:20 Or according to the power of the Lord the word was growing

Deuteronomy 32:15-47

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¹⁵“^(A)But ^[a]Jeshurun became fat and kicked—
You have become fat, thick, and obstinate—
^(B)Then he abandoned God ^(C)who made him,
And ^[b]rejected ^(D)the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶^(E)They made Him jealous with strange gods;
^(F)With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
¹⁷^(G)They sacrificed to demons, who were not God,
^(H)To gods whom they have not known,
^(I)New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not know.
¹⁸You forgot ^(J)the Rock who fathered you,
^(K)And forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹“^(L)The Lord saw this, and spurned them
^(M)Because of the provocation by His sons and daughters.
²⁰Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
^(N)I will see what their end will be;
^(O)For they are a perverse generation,
^(P)Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.
²¹^(Q)They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their ^[c]^(R)idols.
^(S)So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
²²^(T)For a fire has flared in My anger,
And it burns to the lowest part of ^[d]Sheol,
^(U)And devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³‘^(V)I will add misfortunes to them;
^(W)I will use up My arrows on them.
²⁴^(X)They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by ^[e]plague
^(Y)And a bitter epidemic;
^(Z)And the teeth of beasts I will send against them,
^(AA)With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
²⁵^(AB)Outside the sword will make them childless,
And inside, terror—
^(AC)Both young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hair.
²⁶I would have said, “^(AD)I will wipe them out,
^(AE)I will remove the mention of ^[f]their name from humanity,”
²⁷Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “^(AF)Our hand is ^[g]triumphant,
And the Lord has not performed all this.”’

²⁸“^(AG)For they are a nation ^[h]destitute of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.
²⁹^(AH)If only they were wise and they understood this;
^(AI)If only they would discern their ^[i]future!
³⁰^(AJ)How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their ^(AK)Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
³¹Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
^(AL)Even our enemies ^[j]themselves judge this.
³²For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of ^(AM)poison,
Their clusters, bitter.
³³Their wine is the venom of ^[k]serpents,
And the ^[l]deadly poison of vipers.

³⁴‘^(AN)Is it not stored up with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
³⁵^(AO)Vengeance is Mine, and retribution;
^(AP)In due time their foot will slip.
^(AQ)For the day of their disaster is near,
And the impending things are hurrying to them.’
³⁶^(AR)For the Lord will vindicate His people,
^(AS)And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their ^[m]strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
³⁷And He will say, ‘^(AT)Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge?
³⁸^(AU)Those who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
^(AV)Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection!
³⁹^(AW)See now that I, I am He,
^(AX)And there is no god besides Me;
^(AY)It is I who put to death and give life.
^(AZ)I have wounded and it is I who heal,
^(BA)And there is no one who can save anyone from My hand.
⁴⁰Indeed, ^(BB)I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
⁴¹^(BC)If I have sharpened ^[n]My flashing sword,
And My hand has taken hold of justice,
^(BD)I will return vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
⁴²^(BE)I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
^(BF)And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired ^[o]leaders of the enemy.’
⁴³^(BG)Rejoice, you nations, with His people;
^(BH)For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
^(BI)And will return vengeance on His adversaries,
^(BJ)And will atone for His land and His people.”

⁴⁴Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with ^[p]^(BK)Joshua the son of Nun. ⁴⁵When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, ⁴⁶he said to them, “^(BL)Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you will command ^(BM)your sons to ^[q]follow carefully, all the words of this Law. ⁴⁷For it is not a ^[r]trivial matter for you; indeed ^(BN)it is your life. And ^(BO)by this word you will prolong your days in the land, ^[s]which you are about to cross the Jordan to ^[t]possess.”

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 32:15 I.e., Israel
Deuteronomy 32:15 Lit declared void
Deuteronomy 32:21 Lit nonexistent things
Deuteronomy 32:22 I.e., the netherworld
Deuteronomy 32:24 Lit burning heat
Deuteronomy 32:26 Lit them
Deuteronomy 32:27 Lit high
Deuteronomy 32:28 Lit perishing of
Deuteronomy 32:29 Or latter end
Deuteronomy 32:31 Lit are judges
Deuteronomy 32:33 Lit dragons
Deuteronomy 32:33 Lit cruel
Deuteronomy 32:36 Lit hand
Deuteronomy 32:41 Lit the lightning of My sword
Deuteronomy 32:42 Lit head
Deuteronomy 32:44 Lit Hoshea
Deuteronomy 32:46 Lit be careful to perform
Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit empty word
Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit where
Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit possess it

Acts 19:21-41

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²¹Now after these things were finished, Paul resolved in ^[a]the Spirit to ^(A)go to Jerusalem ^(B)after he had passed through ^(C)Macedonia and ^(D)Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, ^(E)I must also see Rome.” ²²And after he sent into ^(F)Macedonia two of ^(G)those who assisted him, ^(H)Timothy and ^(I)Erastus, he himself stayed in ^[b]^(J)Asia for a while.

²³About that time ^[c]a major disturbance occurred in regard to ^[d]^(K)the Way. ²⁴For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of ^[e]Artemis, ^(L)was bringing ^[f]considerable ^[g]business to the craftsmen; ²⁵he gathered these men together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity ^[h]depends upon this business. ²⁶You see and hear that not only in ^(M)Ephesus, but in almost all of ^[i]^(N)Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that ^[j]^(O)gods made by hands are not gods at all. ²⁷Not only is there danger that this trade of ours will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess ^[k]Artemis will be regarded as worthless, and that she whom all of ^[l]^(P)Asia and ^(Q)the ^[m]world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.”

²⁸When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, “Great is ^[n]Artemis of the ^(R)Ephesians!” ²⁹The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along ^(S)Gaius and ^(T)Aristarchus, Paul’s ^(U)Macedonian traveling ^(V)companions. ³⁰And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, ^(W)the disciples would not let him. ³¹Also some of the ^[o]Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him and repeatedly urged him not to ^[p]venture into the theater. ³²^(X)So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the ^[q]assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know ^[r]for what reason they had come together. ³³Some of the crowd ^[s]concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having ^(Y)motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly. ³⁴But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, “Great is ^[t]Artemis of the Ephesians!”

³⁵After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of ^(Z)Ephesus, what person is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great ^[u]Artemis and of the image which fell down from ^[v]the sky? ³⁶So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash. ³⁷For you have brought these men here who are neither ^(AA)temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess. ³⁸So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are in session and ^[w]^(AB)proconsuls are available; have them bring charges against one another. ³⁹But if you want anything beyond this, it shall be settled in the ^[x]lawful ^[y]assembly. ⁴⁰For indeed, we are in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today’s events, since there is no real reason for it, and in this connection we will be unable to account for this disorderly gathering.” ⁴¹After saying this he dismissed the ^[z]assembly.