diff --git a/19-PSA/038.usfm b/19-PSA/038.usfm
index 89e03ca0..18858f0c 100644
--- a/19-PSA/038.usfm
+++ b/19-PSA/038.usfm
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 \q1
 \v 7 My body is burning with fever,
 \q2 and I am very ill.
+
 \q1
 \v 8 I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength.
 \q2 I am very distressed in my inner being, and I groan with pain.
diff --git a/19-PSA/057.usfm b/19-PSA/057.usfm
index 3be6e1cf..6126b32d 100644
--- a/19-PSA/057.usfm
+++ b/19-PSA/057.usfm
@@ -57,11 +57,10 @@
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 9 Lord, I will thank you among all the people;
-\q1 and I will sing to praise you among many people groups,
+\q1 and I will sing songs of praise about you to many people groups.
 \q2
-\v 10 because your faithful love for us is as great as the distance from the earth to the sky,
-\q2 and because your faithfulness.
-\b
+\v 10 For your love for us is as great as the distance from the earth to the sky,
+\q2 and your faithfulness to us goes up to  the clouds.\b
 \q1
 \v 11 God, show in the heavens that you are very great!
 \q2 Show your glory to people all over the earth!
diff --git a/28-HOS/02.usfm b/28-HOS/02.usfm
index c8d81285..a4615f12 100644
--- a/28-HOS/02.usfm
+++ b/28-HOS/02.usfm
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert.
 \q1 "I will give a command to the sky,
 \q2 and the sky will pour out rain onto the ground.
 \q1
-\v 22 And the ground will provide grain, new wine and olive trees, and they will grow in the Valley of Jezreel.
+\v 22 And the ground will provide grain, new wine and olive trees, and they will grow for the people of Israel.
 
 \s5
 \q1
diff --git a/28-HOS/04.usfm b/28-HOS/04.usfm
index 97d77335..4ad78b76 100644
--- a/28-HOS/04.usfm
+++ b/28-HOS/04.usfm
@@ -58,21 +58,21 @@
 \q1
 \v 10 You all will eat, but you will never get enough. You will always be hungry.
 \q2 They will continue to sleep with other women, but the women will not conceive,
-\q1 because you have all abandoned me, whose name is Yahweh.
+\q1 because you have all abandoned me, Yahweh.
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 11 You have given yourselves over to doing forbidden sexual acts,
-\q2 and to drinking wine and new wine.
+\v 11 You love to do forbidden sexual acts,
+\q2 and to drink wine and new wine.
 \q2 All these things have made it impossible for you to know right from wrong.
 \q1
 \v 12 My own people pray to an idol made from a piece of wood. 
 \q2 They ask their walking staffs to tell them which way they should go!
-\q1 They are filled with a spirit of sexual impurity that has led them away from me, the God they should worship.
+\q1 They are always wanting to sin in sexual ways, so they have stopped obeying me, the God whom they should worship.
 
 \s5
 \q2
-\v 13 They are chasing after other gods, at the places of idol worship that are set up on the tops of the mountains. They burn offerings to the idols up on those hills—
+\v 13 They worship other gods in the places on the tops of the mountains where they have set up idols. They burn offerings to the idols up on those hills—
 \q1 in all the places where they worship those idols—under the oak trees, poplar trees, and the terebinth trees—
 \q2 because these trees give good shade.
 \q1 Following your example, your daughters decided to become prostitutes,