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 \q1 But they will see your zeal for the people and be put to shame, because fire of your adversaries will devour them.
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-\v 12 Yahweh, you will bring about peace for us; for indeed, you have also accomplished all our works for us.
+\v 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for indeed, you have also performed all our works for us.
 
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 \v 20 Go, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors behind you;
-\q1 hide for a little while, until the indignation has passed by.
+\q1 hide for a short time, until the indignation has passed by.
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 \v 21 For, look, Yahweh is about to come out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
 \q1 the earth will uncover her bloodshed, and will no longer conceal her slain.
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 \v 4 I am not angry, Oh, that there were briers and thorns!
 \q1 In battle I would march against them; I would burn them all together;
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-\v 5 unless they grasp my protection and make peace with me; let them make peace with me.
+\v 5 unless they take hold of my refuge and make peace with me; let them make peace with me.
 
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 \v 6 In the coming day, Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and bud;
-\q1 and they will fill the surface of the ground with fruit."
+\q1 and they will fill the whole world with fruit."
 
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-\v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been killed as in the slaughter of those nations that were killed by them?
+\v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been slain as in the slaughter of those nations that were slain by them?
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-\v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa In exact measure \fqa* , many modern translations have an idea similar to \fqa By driving them away \fqa* . \f*
+\v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his severe breath in the day of the east wind. \f + \ft Instead of \fqa In exact measure \fqa* , many modern translations have an idea similar to \fqa By driving them away \fqa* . \f*
 
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 \v 3 The proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot.
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-\v 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, that is on the head of the rich valley,
+\v 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley,
 \q1 will be as the first ripe fig before the summer, that, when someone sees it,
-\q1 while it is yet in his hand, he gulps it down.
+\q1 while it is yet in his hand, he swallows it down.
 
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 \q1 The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, and they are swallowed up by wine.
 \q1 They stagger with strong drink, staggering in vision and reeling in decision.
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-\v 8 Truly, all tables are covered with vomit, so that there is no clean place.
+\v 8 Truly, all tables are covered with filthy vomit, so that there is no clean place.
 
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 \v 18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand.
-\q1 When the raging flood passes through, you will be overwhelmed by it.
+\q1 When the raging flood passes through, you will become its trampling place.
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 \v 19 Whenever it passes through, it will overwhelm you,
 \q1 and morning by morning it will pass through and by day and night it will come.
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 \v 27 Moreover, the caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
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-\q1 but caraway is beaten with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
+\q1 but caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
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-\v 28 Grain is ground for bread but not too finely,
-\q1 and though the wheels of his cart and his horses scatter it, his horses do not crush it.
+\v 28 Bread grain is crushed, but the one who grinds it does not thresh it forever.
+\q1 The wheel of his cart and his horses would destroy it, so he does not continue to grind it.
 
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 \v 3 I will encamp against you in a circle
-\q1 and will lay siege against you with a palisade, and I will raise siege works against you.
+\q1 and will lay siege against you with a garrison, and I will raise siege works against you.
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 \v 4 You will be abased and will speak from the ground; your speech will be bowed down from the dust.
 \q1 Your voice will sound like a spirit that speaks from the ground, and out of the dust your speech will whisper.
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 \v 9 Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind!
-\q1 Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with beer.
+\q1 Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink.
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 \v 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep.
 \q1 He has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.
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-\v 20 For the ruthless will cease, and the scoffer will vanish. All those who love to do evil will be eliminated,
+\v 20 For the ruthless will cease, and the mocker will vanish. All those who love to do evil will be eliminated,
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 \v 21 who by a word make a man out to be an offender. They lay a snare for him
 \q1 who seeks justice at the gate and put the righteous down with empty lies.
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 \v 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, they will make my name holy.
 \q1 They will make holy the name of the Holy One of Jacob and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
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-\v 24 Those who err in spirit will gain understanding, and complainers will learn knowledge."
+\v 24 Those who err in spirit will gain understanding, and complainers will accept instruction."
 
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 \v 6 A declaration about the animals of the Negev:
-\q1 Through the land of trouble and danger, of the lioness and the lion,
+\q1 Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion,
 \q1 the viper and fiery flying serpent,
 \q1 they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
 \q1 and their treasures on the camels' humps,
 \q1 to a people who cannot help them.
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-\v 7 For Egypt's help is worthless;
+\v 7 For Egypt's help is vain and empty;
 \q1 therefore I have called her Rahab, who sits still.
 
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 \q1 "Because you reject this word
 \q1 and trust in oppression and deceit and lean on it,
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-\v 13 so this sin will be to you
+\v 13 so this iniquity will be to you
 \q1 like a broken part ready to fall, like a bulge in a high wall
 \q1 whose fall will happen suddenly, in an instant."
 
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-\v 14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken; he will not spare it,
+\v 14 It will break as a potter's vessel is broken; he will not spare it,
 \q1 so that there will not be found among its pieces a shard
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-\v 20 Though Yahweh gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
+\v 20 Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
 \q1 even so, your teacher will not hide himself anymore, but you will see your teacher with your own eyes.
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 \v 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you saying,
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 \q1 His lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
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 \v 28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent that reaches up to the middle of the neck,
-\q1 to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. His breath is a bridle in the jaws of the peoples to cause them to wander away.
+\q1 to sift the nations with the sieve of worthlessness. His breath is a bridle in the jaws of the peoples to cause them to wander away.
 
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 \v 30 Yahweh will make the splendor of his voice heard and show the motion of his arm
-\q1 in storming anger and flames of fire, with windstorm, rainstorm, and hailstones.
+\q1 in raging anger and flames of fire, with windstorm, rainstorm, and hailstones.
 
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-\v 31 For at the voice of Yahweh, Assyria will be shattered; he will strike them with a staff.
+\v 31 For at the voice of Yahweh, Assyria will be dismayed; he will strike them with a staff.
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 \v 32 Every stroke of the appointed rod that Yahweh will lay on them
-\q1 will be accompanied with the music of tambourines and harps as he battles and fights with them.
+\q1 will be accompanied with the music of tambourines and harps as he battles, waving his weapons, and fights with them.
 
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-\v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siegeworks against Jerusalem.
+\v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siege works against Jerusalem.
 \q This is the right city to attack, because it is filled with oppression.
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 \v 7 As a well pours out fresh water, so this city keeps producing wickedness.