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-\v 1 Yahweh gave Micah, who was from Moresheth in Judah, these messages in visions about Samaria and Jerusalem during the time when Jotham, and then Ahaz, and then Hezekiah were the kings of Judah.
+\v 1 Yahweh gave Micah, who was from Moresheth in Judah, these messages in visions about Samaria and Jerusalem during the time when Jotham, then Ahaz, and then Hezekiah were the kings of Judah.
 
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 \q2 and walk over the high places where you worship idols.
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 \v 4 It will be as though the mountains will melt under his feet
-\q2 as wax melts in front of a fire,
+\q2 as wax melts in front of a fire
 \q1 and as water disappears
 \q2 when it rushes down into a valley.
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 \q1 I will cause the stones of its buildings to roll down into the valley.
 \q2 I will destroy the buildings down to their foundations.
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-\v 7 I will make others smash the idols in Samaria to pieces.
+\v 7 I will make other people smash the idols in Samaria to pieces.
 \q2 The gifts given to prostitutes at the temples of their idols will be burned in fire.
 \q1 Because people paid prostitutes there,
 \q2 their enemies will take away those idols and sell them to pay prostitutes in other countries.
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 \v 11 You people who live in Shaphir,
-\q2 naked and ashamed, you will be taken to another country.
-\q1 You people in Beth Ezel should mourn,
+\q2 you will be taken naked and ashamed to another country.
+\q1 You people in Beth Ezel should mourn
 \q2 because no one from Zaanan will go out to help you.
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 \v 12 The people of Maroth
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@
 \q2 hitch your horses to pull the chariots in which you can ride to flee from your enemies.
 \q1 The Israelite people rebelled against Yahweh,
 \q2 and you imitated them,
-\q1 and that caused the people of Jerusalem to start sinning, too.
+\q1 and that caused the people of Jerusalem to also start sinning.
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-\v 14 You people of Judah, send a farewell gift to the people of Moresheth,
+\v 14 You people of Judah, send a farewell gift to the people of Moresheth Gath
 \q2 because their enemies will soon destroy it.
 \q1 The kings of Israel will soon find out that the people of the town of Akzib will disappoint them.
 
@@ -90,13 +90,13 @@
 \q2 Yahweh will soon send someone to conquer your town.
 \q1 It will be necessary for the great leaders of Israel to go and hide in the cave near Adullam.
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-\v 16 You people of Judah, shave your heads and go into mourning,
+\v 16 You people of Judah, shave your heads and go into mourning
 \q2 because the children whom you love will soon go into exile.
 
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-\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night,
+\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night
 \q2 planning to do wicked things.
 \q1 Then you get up at dawn, and you do those things
 \q2 as soon as you are able to do them.
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 \v 3 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says:
 \q1 "I will cause you people of Israel to experience disasters,
 \q2 and you will not be able to escape from them.
-\q1 You will no longer walk around proudly,
+\q1 You will no longer walk around proudly
 \q2 because when that happens, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
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 \v 4 At that time, your enemies will make fun of you rich people;
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 \q2 Do not say that Yahweh is going to humiliate us by causing us to experience disasters!"
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 \v 7 But you people talk like that!
-\q2 You say that Yahweh never gets angry,
+\q2 You say that Yahweh never gets angry
 \q2 and that he never really punishes us."
 \q1 Of course, what I say certainly helps those who live in the right way.
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 \v 8 But Yahweh says,
-\q2 "Recently my people have been acting toward me like an enemy.
+\q2 "Recently, my people have been acting toward me like an enemy.
 \q1 You rich people refuse to return the coats of those who have borrowed money from you,
 \q2 the coats they gave you to promise that they would repay their debts.
 \q2 You take their coats without warning, surprising them as much as soldiers returning from war would be surprised by attacks instead of safety at home.
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 \v 11 You people want a prophet who will lie to you,
 \q2 saying, 'I will preach that you should drink plenty of wine and other alcoholic drinks!'
-\q2 That is the kind of prophet who would please you."
+\q2 That is the kind of prophet who would please you.
 
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-\v 12 "But on that day, you descendants of Jacob, I will bring back from exile the Israelite people who have survived.
+\v 12 But on that day, you descendants of Jacob, I will bring back from exile the Israelite people who have survived.
 \q1 I will gather you together
 \q2 like a shepherd gathers his sheep into a pen,
 \q2 and there will be many of you in your land.
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 \v 2 but you hate what is good
 \q1 and love what is evil.
-\q2 You act like butchers:
-\q1 it is as though you strip the skin off my people
+\q2 You act like butchers;
+\q1 it is as though you strip the skin off of my people
 \q2 and tear the flesh from their bones.
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 \v 3 It is as though you chop them into pieces like meat to be cooked in a pot.
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 \v 4 Then, when you have troubles, you plead to Yahweh to help you,
 \q2 but he will not answer you.
 \q1 At that time, he will turn his face away from you
-\q2 because of the evil things that you have done."
+\q2 because of the evil things you have done."
 
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 \q2 to the temple where we can worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.
 \q1 There he will teach us how he wants us to conduct our lives,
 \q2 and we will do what he wants us to do."
-\q1 Mount Zion is the place where he will teach people;
+\q1 Mount Zion is the place where he will teach people,
 \q2 and people will go out from Jerusalem to tell others his messages.
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 \v 3 Yahweh will settle disputes between many different people and groups who are fighting against each other,
 \q2 and he will also settle disputes between powerful nations that are far away.
-\q1 Then people will hammer their swords to cause them to become plow blades,
+\q1 Then people will hammer their swords to cause them to become plow blades
 \q2 and hammer their spears to cause them to become pruning knives.
 \q1 Armies of nations will no longer fight against armies of other nations,
 \q2 and they will no longer train men how to fight in wars.
 
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-\v 4 Everyone will sit peacefully under his own grapevines,
-\q2 and under his own fig trees;
+\v 4 Everyone will sit peacefully under their own grapevines
+\q2 and under their own fig trees;
 \q1 no one will cause them to be afraid.
 \q2 That is what will surely happen because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has said it.
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 \v 9 So why are you wailing now?
 \q2 Is it because you have no king?
-\q1 Have all your wise people died?
+\q1 Have all of your wise people died?
 \q2 You are weeping loudly like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
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-\v 10 Well, you people of Jerusalem should twist and groan as a woman who is having birth pains,
+\v 10 Well, you people of Jerusalem should twist and groan as a woman who is having birth pains
 \q2 because now you must leave this city.
 \q1 While you are traveling, you will set up tents in open fields at night;
 \q2 you will go to live in Babylon.
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 \q2 They are saying, 'Jerusalem must be destroyed!
 \q2 We want to see this city when it becomes ruins!'"
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-\v 12 The prophet says, they do not know what Yahweh thinks;
+\v 12 The prophet says that they do not know what Yahweh thinks
 \q2 and they do not understand what he is planning.
 \q1 He will gather them and punish them
 \q2 as farmers thresh grain on the ground.
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 \v 13 Yahweh says, "So, you people of Jerusalem, rise up and punish the nations who oppose you.
-\q2 I will cause you to be very strong,
-\q1 as if you had horns made of iron,
-\q2 as if you had hooves made of bronze;
+\q2 I will cause you to be very strong
+\q1 as if you had horns made of iron
+\q2 and as if you had hooves made of bronze,
 \q2 and you will crush many nations.
-\q1 Then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries,
+\q1 Then you will take from your enemies the valuable things they have taken from other countries,
 \q2 and I will cause you to dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth."
 
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