1 Peter 2:9-17

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⁹But you are ^(A)a chosen race, ^(B)a royal ^(C)priesthood, ^(D)a holy nation, ^(E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^(F)out of darkness into ^(G)his marvelous light. ¹⁰^(H)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you ^(I)as sojourners and exiles ^(J)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, ^(K)which wage war against your soul. ¹²^(L)Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, ^(M)they may see your good deeds and glorify God on ^(N)the day of visitation.

Submission to Authority

¹³^(O)Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,^[a] whether it be to the emperor^[b] as supreme, ¹⁴or to governors as sent by him ^(P)to punish those who do evil and ^(Q)to praise those who do good. ¹⁵For this is the will of God, ^(R)that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. ¹⁶^(S)Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but ^(T)living as servants^[c] of God. ¹⁷^(U)Honor everyone. ^(V)Love the brotherhood. ^(W)Fear God. Honor the emperor.

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Footnotes

1 Peter 2:13 Or every institution ordained for people
1 Peter 2:13 Or king; also verse 17
1 Peter 2:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

Jeremiah 47-48

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Judgment on the Philistines

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet ^(A)concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down ^(B)Gaza.

²“Thus says the Lord:
^(C)Behold, waters are rising ^(D)out of the north,
    ^(E)and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow ^(F)the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
³At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    ^(G)at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers ^(H)look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
⁴because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all ^(I)the Philistines,
to cut off from ^(J)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    ^(K)the remnant of the coastland of ^(L)Caphtor.
⁵^(M)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    ^(N)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    ^(O)how long will you gash yourselves?
⁶^(P)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
⁷How can it^[a] be quiet
    ^(Q)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against ^(R)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    ^(S)he has appointed it.”

Judgment on Moab

48 ^(T)Concerning Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“Woe to ^(U)Nebo, for it is laid waste!
    ^(V)Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame ^(W)and broken down;
²    the renown of Moab is no more.
In ^(X)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off ^(Y)from being a nation!’
You also, O ^(Z)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

³“A voice! A cry from ^(AA)Horonaim,
    ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
⁴Moab is destroyed;
    her little ones have made a cry.
⁵^(AB)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[b]
for ^(AC)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[c] of destruction.
⁶Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like ^(AD)a juniper in the desert!
⁷For, ^(AE)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and ^(AF)Chemosh ^(AG)shall go into exile
    with ^(AH)his priests and his officials.
⁸^(AI)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and ^(AJ)the plain shall be destroyed,
    as the Lord has spoken.

⁹“Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.

¹⁰^(AK)“Cursed is he who does ^(AL)the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

¹¹“Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has ^(AM)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
    and his scent is not changed.

¹²“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his^[d] jars in pieces. ¹³Then ^(AN)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as ^(AO)the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(AP)Bethel, their confidence.

¹⁴“How do you say, ‘We are heroes
    and mighty men of war’?
¹⁵The destroyer of ^(AQ)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have ^(AR)gone down to slaughter,
    declares ^(AS)the King, ^(AT)whose name is the Lord of hosts.
¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
    and his affliction hastens swiftly.
¹⁷^(AU)Grieve for him, all you who are around him,
    and all who know his name;
say, ^(AV)‘How the mighty scepter is broken,
    the glorious staff.’

¹⁸^(AW)“Come down from your glory,
    and sit on the parched ground,
    O inhabitant of ^(AX)Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹^(AY)Stand by the way ^(AZ)and watch,
    O inhabitant of ^(BA)Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
    say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(BB)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(BC)the Arnon,
    that ^(BD)Moab is laid waste.

²¹“Judgment has come upon ^(BE)the tableland, upon Holon, and ^(BF)Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²and ^(BG)Dibon, and ^(BH)Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³and ^(BI)Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and ^(BJ)Beth-meon, ²⁴and ^(BK)Kerioth, and ^(BL)Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵^(BM)The horn of Moab is cut off, and ^(BN)his arm is broken, declares the Lord.

²⁶^(BO)“Make him drunk, ^(BP)because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall ^(BQ)wallow in his vomit, ^(BR)and he too shall be held in derision. ²⁷^(BS)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(BT)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(BU)you wagged your head?

²⁸^(BV)“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab!
Be ^(BW)like the dove that nests
    in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
²⁹^(BX)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
    and the haughtiness of his heart.
³⁰I know his insolence, declares the Lord;
    ^(BY)his boasts are false,
    his deeds are false.
³¹^(BZ)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(CA)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³²More than for ^(CB)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(CC)O vine of ^(CD)Sibmah!
^(CE)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(CF)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
³³^(CG)Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.

³⁴^(CH)“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to ^(CI)Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. ³⁵And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in ^(CJ)the high place and makes offerings to his god. ³⁶Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of ^(CK)Kir-hareseth. ^(CL)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

³⁷^(CM)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ^(CN)On all the hands are gashes, and ^(CO)around the waist is sackcloth. ³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like ^(CP)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. ³⁹How it is broken! How they wail! ^(CQ)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab ^(CR)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

⁴⁰For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(CS)one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
    ^(CT)and spread his wings against Moab;
⁴¹^(CU)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
^(CV)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of ^(CW)a woman in her birth pains;
⁴²Moab shall be ^(CX)destroyed and be no longer a people,
    because ^(CY)he magnified himself against the Lord.
⁴³^(CZ)Terror, pit, and snare
    are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!
declares the Lord.
⁴⁴He who flees from the terror
    shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
    shall be caught in the snare.
^(DA)For I will bring these things upon Moab,
    the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

⁴⁵“In the shadow of Heshbon
    fugitives stop without strength,
for fire came out from Heshbon,
    flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed ^(DB)the forehead of Moab,
    the crown of ^(DC)the sons of tumult.
⁴⁶^(DD)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of ^(DE)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷^(DF)Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
    in the latter days, declares the Lord.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.