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-\v 1 You wealthy women of Samaria who have grown fat like the fat cows of the region of Bashan.
+\v 1 You wealthy women of Samaria have grown fat like the fat cows of the region of Bashan.
 \q2 You oppress poor people,
 \q2 and you cause needy people to suffer.
 \q1 And you say to your husbands,
@@ -291,24 +291,24 @@
 
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-\v 3 Your enemies will drag you out
+\v 3 Your enemies will drag you out,
 \q2 and you will go through breaks in your city walls,
 \q2 and they will force you to go toward Harmon.
 \q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!
 
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-\v 4 Go ahead: go to the hilltop places of idol worship that are at Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me;
+\v 4 Go ahead: Go to the hilltop places of idol worship that are at Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me;
 \q2 go and rebel more and more against me!
 \q1 Offer sacrifices on the morning after you arrive,
 \q2 and bring me a tenth of your crops the next day.
 \q1
-\v 5 Bring offerings of bread to thank me,
+\v 5 Bring offerings of bread to thank me
 \q2 and other offerings that are not required,
-\q1 and boast about these offerings that you bring,
+\q1 and boast about these offerings that you bring
 \q2 because that is what you like to do;
 \q1 but you do it to impress others, not to please me.
-\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it.
+\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it.
 
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@@ -333,36 +333,36 @@
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 \v 9 Many times I struck your crops with disease and mildew.
 \q2 The locusts devoured your gardens and vineyards,
-\q2 your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me
-\q1 —this is Yahweh's declaration."
+\q2 your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me.
+\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it."
 
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 \v 10 I caused you to experience plagues
 \q2 like the plagues that I sent to the people of Egypt.
-\q1 I caused many of your young men to die in battles.
+\q1 I caused many of your young men to die in battles
 \q2 and allowed your enemies to capture your horses.
 \q1 Many of your soldiers were killed,
 \q2 and your camps were filled with the smell of their corpses.
 \q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me.
-\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
+\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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-\v 11 I got rid of many of you,
-\q2 like the people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
+\v 11 I got rid of many of you
+\q2 as I got rid of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
 \q1 Those of you who did not die were like a burning stick that was snatched from a fire so that it would not burn completely.
 \q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me.
-\q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
+\q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it!
 
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 \v 12 So now, you people of Israel, I am going to punish you.
 \q2 Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, when I judge you!
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-\v 13 I created the mountains,
+\v 13 I created the mountains
 \q2 and the winds.
-\q1 I reveal to humans what I am thinking.
+\q1 I reveal to humans what I am thinking
 \q2 and sometimes cause the daylight to become dark like the night.
-\q1 I rule over everything,
+\q1 I rule over everything
 \q2 and even walk on the highest mountains on the earth!
 \q2 I am Yahweh, commander of the angel armies!"
 
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 \v 3 This is what Yahweh the Lord says to the people of Israel:
-\q1 "When your enemies attack you,
+\q1 "When your enemies attack you
 \q1 and when a thousand of your soldiers go into battle,
 \q2 only a hundred will survive.
 \q1 When a hundred soldiers march out from a city to fight,
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
 \q2 if you do that, you will remain alive.
 \q1 If you do not do that,
 \q2 Yahweh will come down on you descendants of Joseph like a fire;
-\q1 that fire will burn everything in Bethel
+\q1 that fire will burn everything in Bethel,
 \q2 and nothing will be able to save that town.
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 \v 7 You people distort what is right; you make others think that it is something very bitter;
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
 \q1 because you hate those who challenge anyone who tries to make unjust decisions;
 \q2 you hate those who tell the truth in your courts.
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-\v 11 You oppress poor people and force them to pay big taxes.
+\v 11 You oppress poor people and force them to pay many taxes.
 \q1 So you have built big stone mansions for yourselves,
 \q2 but you will not be able to live in them.
 \q1 You have planted vineyards,
@@ -449,11 +449,11 @@
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 \v 14 In order to remain alive,
-\q2 you must stop doing what is wrong, and start doing what is right.
+\q2 you must stop doing what is wrong and start doing what is right.
 \q1 If you do that, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will be with you
 \q2 as you claim that he always is.
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-\v 15 Love what is good, and hate what is evil!
+\v 15 Love what is good and hate what is evil!
 \q2 Try to cause judges in your courts to make decisions that are right!
 \q1 If you do those things, perhaps Yahweh, commander of the angel armies,
 \q2 will act mercifully toward you descendants of Joseph who are still alive.
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 \v 16 "Because I, Yahweh, will punish you for your sins, this is what I have solemnly declared:
 \q1 People will be wailing loudly in every street,
 \q2 and people will be shocked in every plaza.
-\q1 Farmers will be called to come and weep,
+\q1 Farmers will be called to come and weep
 \q2 along with the other official mourners who will wail for those who have died.
 \q1
-\v 17 People will be wailing in your vineyards,
+\v 17 People will be wailing in your vineyards
 \q2 because I will punish you severely.
 \q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!"
 
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 \v 19 At that time, when you try to run from a lion,
 \q2 you will face a bear.
-\q1 When you run into your house to be safe,
+\q1 When you run into your house to be safe
 \q2 and you put your hand on the wall,
 \q2 it will be bitten by a snake.
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@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
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 \v 25 You Israelite people, your ancestors wandered through the wilderness for forty years;
-\q2 and during that time, they never brought any sacrifices and offerings to me!
+\q2 during that time, they never brought any sacrifices and offerings to me!
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 \v 26 But you carried the two idols that you have made—
 \q2 Sikkuth, the god whom you call 'king,'
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@
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-\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything,
+\v 1 Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything
 \q2 and also to you leaders who live on the hill of the city of Samaria, you who think that you are safe.
 \q1 You call yourselves the most important people in the world,
 \q2 and you are the leaders to whom Israelites go for help.
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
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 \v 5 You create new songs as if you had nothing better to do,
-\q2 and you play them on your harps like King David did.
+\q2 and you play them on your harps as King David did.
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 \v 6 You drink entire bowlfuls of wine,
 \q2 and you put expensive oils on your bodies,
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
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 \v 14 But Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, declares,
 \q2 "I will cause a certain nation to attack you people of Israel;
-\q1 they will oppress you all the way from Hamath Pass in the northwest
+\q1 they will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath in the northwest
 \q2 to the brook of the Arabah.
 
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