Cleaning up project on

the self-references of Yahweh

02-EXO/23.usfm

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 \v 16 You must observe the Festival of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors when you sowed seed in the fields. Also you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the fields.
-\v 17 All your males must appear before me, Yahweh, three times every year.
+\v 17 All your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh, three times every year. 
 
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23-ISA/38.usfm

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 \v 6 Then I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
 
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-\v 7 This will be the sign to you from me, Yahweh, that I will do what I have spoken:
+\v 7 This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that I will do what I have promised.
 \v 8 Look, I will cause the shadow on the stairs of Ahaz to go back ten steps.'" So the shadow went back ten steps of the stairs on which it had advanced.
 
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24-JER/12.usfm

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 \q You are near to them in their mouths, but far away from their hearts.
 
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-\v 3 Yet you yourself know me, Yahweh. You have seen me and have examined my heart.
-\q Take them away like sheep to the slaughter. Set them apart for the day of slaughter.
+\v 3 Yet you, Yahweh, know me. You see me and you test my heart toward you.
+\q Take them away like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter!
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 \v 4 How long will the land go on drying up, and the plants in every field wither because of the wickedness of its inhabitants?
 \q Beasts and bird have been taken away. Indeed, the people say, "God does not know what will happen to us."

24-JER/15.usfm

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-\v 15 You yourself know, Yahweh! Call me to mind and help me. Bring vengeance for me against my pursuers.
-\q In your patience do not take me away. Acknowledge that I have suffered reproach for you.
+\v 15 Yahweh, you know! Remember me and help me. Bring vengeance for me against those who persecute me.
+\q You are patient, but do not allow them to take me away; know that I suffer reproach for your sake. 
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 \v 16 Your words have been found, and I consumed them. Your words were a joy to me,
 \q a joy to my heart, for your name is proclaimed on me, Yahweh God of hosts.

24-JER/20.usfm

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-\v 7 "You deceived me, Yahweh. I was indeed deceived. You seized me and defeated me.
-\q I have become a laughingstock. The people mock me every day, all the day.
+\v 7 "Yahweh, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and you overpowered me.
+\q I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
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 \v 8 For whenever I have spoken, I have called out and proclaimed, 'Violence and destruction.'
 \q Then Yahweh's word has become for me reproach and mocking every day.

24-JER/31.usfm

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 \v 38 "Look, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when the city will be rebuilt for me, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
 \v 39 Then the measuring line will go out again farther, to the hill of Gareb and around Goah.
-\v 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the terraced fields going out to the Kidron Valley as far as the corner of the Horse Gate on the east, will be set apart for me, Yahweh. The city will not be pulled up or overthrown again, forever."
+\v 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the terraced fields going out to the Kidron Valley as far as the corner of the Horse Gate on the east, will be set apart for Yahweh. The city will not be pulled up or overthrown again, forever."
 
 
 

24-JER/48.usfm

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-\v 26 Make him drunk, for he acted proudly against me, Yahweh. Now Moab claps his hands in disgust at his own vomit, so he also has become an object for laughter.
+\v 26 Make him drunk, because he acted proudly against Yahweh. Let Moab wallow in his vomit, and let him be an object of ridicule. 
 \v 27 For did not Israel become an object for laughter to you? Was he found among thieves, so that you shook your head at him as often as you spoke about him?
 
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-\v 42 So Moab will be destroyed as a people, since they became arrogant against me, Yahweh.
+\v 42 So Moab will be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he made himself to be great against Yahweh. 
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 \v 43 Terror and the pit, and a trap are coming on you, inhabitant of Moab—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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28-HOS/02.usfm

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 \v 19 I will promise to be your husband forever.
 \q I will promise to be your husband in righteousness, justice, covenant faithfulness, and mercy.
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-\v 20 I will promise to be your husband in faithfulness,
-\q and you will know me, Yahweh.
+\v 20 I will pledge myself to you in faithfulness,
+\q and you will know Yahweh.
 
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28-HOS/11.usfm

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-\v 10 They will walk after me, Yahweh.
-\q I will roar like a lion.
-\q I will indeed roar,
-\q and the people will come trembling from the west.
+\v 10 They will follow Yahweh;
+\q and he will roar like a lion.
+\q When he roars, 
+\q his children will come trembling from the west.
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 \v 11 They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt,
 \q like a dove from the land of Assyria.

33-MIC/06.usfm

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 \q and rescued you out of the house of bondage.
 \q I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to you.
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-\v 5 My people, call to mind what Balak king of Moab devised,
-\q and what Balaam son of Beor answered him
+\v 5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised,
+\q and how Balaam son of Beor answered him
 \q as you went from Shittim to Gilgal,
-\q that you may know the righteous acts of me, Yahweh."
+\q so you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
 
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