cleaning editing and such

24-JER/03.usfm

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
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 \v 1 "They say, 'A man sends his wife away, so she goes from him and becomes another man's wife. 
 \q Should he return to her again? Is she not completely unclean?' That woman is this land!
-\q You have acted like a whore with many allies, and now do you want to return to me?—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+\q You have acted like a whore with many companions, and now do you want to return to me?—this is Yahweh's declaration.
 \q
-\v 2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and look! Where have you not been ravished? 
+\v 2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and look! Is there is any place where you have not had illicit sex? 
 \q By the roadsides you sat waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness.
 \q You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 \v 3 So the spring rains were withheld and the late rains did not come.
 \q But your face is arrogant, like a promiscuous woman's face. You refuse to feel shame.
 \q
-\v 4 Will you not call out to me from this time on, 'My father! You are my closest friend from my youth.
+\v 4 And now will you not call out to me: 'My father! My closest friend even from my youth!
 \q
-\v 5 Will you be angry forever? Will you always keep your anger?'
+\v 5 Will he be angry with me forever? Will you always keep your anger?'
 \q Look! You have proclaimed you would commit evil, and you have committed it. So continue to do it!"
  
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@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@
 \v 16 Then it will happen that you will increase and bear fruit in the land in those days—this is Yahweh's declaration. They will no longer say, "The ark of the covenant of Yahweh!" This matter will no longer come up in their hearts, for they will no longer think about it or pay attention to it. This statement will no longer be made.'
  
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-\v 17 In that time they will proclaim about Jerusalem, 'This is Yahweh's throne,' and all the other nations will gather at Jerusalem in Yahweh's name. They will 
-no longer walk in the stubbornness of their wicked hearts.
+\v 17 In that time they will proclaim about Jerusalem, 'This is Yahweh's throne,' and all the other nations will gather at Jerusalem in Yahweh's name. They will no longer walk in the stubbornness of their wicked hearts.
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 \v 18 In those days, the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel. They will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
  
@@ -64,11 +63,11 @@ no longer walk in the stubbornness of their wicked hearts.
 \q I would have said that you would not turn from following me.
 \q
 \v 20 But like a woman faithless to her husband,
-\q you have betrayed me, house of Israel"—this is Yahweh's declaration.
+\q you have betrayed me, house of Israel—this is Yahweh's declaration."
  
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-\v 21 A noise is heard on the plains, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel!
+\v 21 A voice is heard on the plains, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel!
 \q For they have changed their ways; they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
 \q
 \v 22 "Return, faithless people! I will heal you of treachery!"

38-ZEC/10.usfm

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-\v 1 Ask for rain from Yahweh in the time of the spring rain—
-\q Yahweh who makes thunderstorms!—and
-he will provide rain showers for them, 
-\q and plants in the fields for mankind.
+\v 1 Ask for rain from Yahweh in the season of the spring rain—
+\q Yahweh who makes thunderstorms—
+\q and he gives rain showers to everyone
+\q and vegetation in the field.
 \q
 \v 2 For household idols speak falsely; the diviners envision a lie; 
 \q they tell deceitful dreams and give empty comfort,