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-\v 1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, that Yahweh showed him about Judah and Jerusalem during the years of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
+\v 1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz that Yahweh showed him about Judah and Jerusalem during the years of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
 
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 \q2 Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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 \v 11 "What do your many sacrifices mean to me?" says Yahweh;
-\q2 "I do not want any more burnt offerings of rams, or the fat of bulls.
+\q2 "I do not want any more burnt offerings of rams or the fat of bulls.
 \q1 The blood of bulls, lambs, or goats does not make me happy.
 
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 \v 15 So when you lift up your hands to pray to me,
 \q2 I will not look at you.
 \q1 Even if you pray to me often,
-\q1 I will not listen to you,
+\q1 I will not listen to you
 \q2 because it is as though your hands are covered with the blood of people whom you have killed.
 
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 \q1 "Come, let us go up to the hill,
 \q2 to the temple of Yahweh,
 \q2 to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.
-\q1 There he will teach us what he desires us to know,
-\q2 in order that our behavior will please him."
+\q1 There he will teach us what he desires us to know
+\q2 so that our behavior will please him."
 \q1 They will teach us in Jerusalem;
 \q2 we will learn there what Yahweh desires to tell us.
 
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 \v 5 You descendants of Jacob,
-\q2 let us behave in the way that we should because Yahweh is with us!
+\q2 let us behave in the way that we should, because Yahweh is with us!
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 \v 6 Yahweh, you have abandoned us, your people
 \q2 who are descendants of Jacob,
 \q1 because everywhere your people practice the customs of people who live east of Israel.
-\q2 They also perform rituals to find out what will happen in the future, like the people in Philistia do.
+\q2 They also perform rituals to find out what will happen in the future as the people in Philistia do.
 \q2 They make agreements with foreigners who do not know Yahweh.
 
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 \q2 when he will judge those who are proud, every one of them,
 \q2 and he will humble them.
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-\v 13 He will get rid of all those who think others should admire them, like the tall cedar trees in Lebanon,
+\v 13 He will get rid of all those who think others should admire them, like the tall cedar trees in Lebanon
 \q2 and like all the great oak trees in the region of Bashan.
 
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 \q2 and high strong walls inside of which they are safe.
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 \v 16 He will destroy all those who are rich because they own big ships that carry goods to other countries
-\q2 and own other beautiful ships, too.
+\q2 and also own other beautiful ships.
 
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 \v 19 When Yahweh comes to terrify the people on the earth,
 \q2 they will run to hide in caves in rock cliffs
-\q1 and in holes in the ground,
+\q1 and in holes in the ground
 \q2 because they are afraid of Yahweh
 \q2 and of his glorious and awesome power.
 
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 \q2 and hide in holes in the cliffs.
 \q1 They will try to escape from Yahweh, who is coming to punish them;
 \q2 They will fear what he will do because he is glorious and awesome,
-\q2 when he comes to come to terrify the people on the earth.
+\q2 when he comes to terrify the people on the earth.
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-\v 22 So do not trust that people will save you,
+\v 22 So do not trust that people will save you
 \q2 because they are as powerless as a person's breath.
 \q1 People certainly cannot help you!
 
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 \q2 You rule this city, which is now a pile of ruins.'
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 \v 7 But his brother will reply,
-\q2 'No, I cannot help you,
+\q2 'No, I cannot help you
 \q1 because I do not have any extra food or clothes in this house.
 \q2 So do not make me your leader!'"
 
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-\v 8 The people in Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah have disobeyed God,
+\v 8 The people in Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah have disobeyed God
 \q2 because everything that the people do and say there opposes Yahweh,
 \q2 the powerful and glorious one,
 \q1 and they refuse to obey him.
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 \v 14 He will stand up to declare why he should punish the elders and rulers of his people;
 \q1 he says, "The people of Israel are like a vineyard that I planted,
-\q2 but you leaders have made unable to bear any fruit.
+\q2 but you leaders have made it unable to bear any fruit.
 \q2 Your houses are full of things that you have stolen from poor people.
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 \v 15 You should stop making my people suffer.
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 \v 16 Yahweh says this:
 \q1 "The women of Jerusalem are haughty;
-\q2 they walk around sticking their chins out,
+\q2 they walk around sticking their chins out
 \q2 and flirting with men with their eyes.
 \q1 They walk with tiny steps
 \q2 with bracelets on their ankles that jingle."
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 \v 18 At the time that the Lord does that, he will also cause others to take away from the women of Jerusalem all of the beautiful things they like to wear—the ornaments on their ankles and their headbands, their crescent necklaces,
 \v 19 their earrings and bracelets and veils,
-\v 20 their scarves and ankle bracelets and sashes, their perfumes and charms.
+\v 20 their scarves and ankle bracelets and sashes, and their perfumes and charms.
 
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 \v 21 He will cause others to remove the women's finger rings and nose rings,
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 \v 24 Instead of smelling nice from perfume, they will stink;
 \q2 instead of beautiful sashes, they will have ropes around their waists.
 \q1 Instead of having fancy hairdos, they will be bald.
-\q2 Instead of fancy robes, they will wear rough sackcloth,
-\q2 Instead of beauty, scars of branding.
+\q2 Instead of having fancy robes, they will wear rough sackcloth.
+\q2 Instead of beauty, they will have scars of branding.
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 \v 25 Your men will die by their enemies' swords,
 \q2 and your soldiers will also die in battle.