OBA edits/corrections

31-OBA.usfm

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
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-\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom people.
+\v 1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the people of Edom.
 \p Yahweh our God has told me this about the people of Edom:
 \q1 "I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations,
 \q2 telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom."
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@
 
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-\v 7 All your allies will turn against you,
+\v 7 All of your allies will turn against you,
 \q2 and they will force you to leave your country.
 \q1 Those with whom you have peace now will trick you and defeat you.
 \q2 Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you,
 \q1 and then they will say to you, 'You are not as clever as you thought you were!'
 \q1
-\v 8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom,
-\q2 I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who thought that they were wise.
+\v 8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time I destroy Edom,
+\q2 I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who thought they were wise.
 \q1
 \v 9 The soldiers from Teman town will become terrified;
 \q2 all you people who are descendants of Esau will be wiped out."
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
 \q2 So now you will be disgraced, and you will be destroyed forever.
 \q1
 \v 11 Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem
-\q2 and cast lots to share out among themselves the valuable things they found;
-\q1 but you were as bad as those foreigners,
+\q2 and cast lots to share among themselves the valuable things they found,
+\q1 but you were as bad as those foreigners
 \q2 because you just stood there and did not help the Israelites.
 
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@@ -69,23 +69,23 @@
 \q1 You should not have made fun of them when they were suffering.
 \q1
 \v 13 They are my people,
-\q2 so you should not have entered their city gates when they were experiencing those disasters
+\q2 so you should not have entered their city gates when they were experiencing those disasters,
 \q1 and you should not have laughed at them.
 \q2 And you should not have taken away their valuable possessions.
 \q1
 \v 14 You should not have stood at crossroads
 \q2 to catch those who were trying to escape.
 \q1 You should not have captured them and put them into the hands of their enemies
-\q2 when they were experiencing those disasters."
+\q2 when they were experiencing those disasters.
 
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-\v 15 "There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.
+\v 15 There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.
 \q2 And you people of Edom will experience the same disasters that you caused others to experience.
 \q1 The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
 \q1
 \v 16 It is as though you drank a cup of very bitter liquid on Zion, my sacred hill.
-\q2 But I will punish all the other nations just as severely,
+\q2 But I will punish all the other nations just as severely
 \q1 and cause them to disappear completely.
 
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@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@
 
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-\v 20 The great number of the people of Israel who were captured and taken away, they will return to the land,
-\q2 and they will capture the land that was ruled by the people of Canaan, and they will take possession of the land as far north as Zarephath.
-\q1 Those people of Israel who were captured and taken away from Jerusalem, and who live in Sepharad, they will take possession of the cities in the Negev, which is the southern Judean wilderness.
+\v 20 The great number of the people of Israel who were captured and taken away will return to the land,
+\q2 they will capture the land that was ruled by the people of Canaan, and they will take possession of the land as far north as Zarephath.
+\q1 Those people of Israel who were captured and taken away from Jerusalem and who live in Sepharad will take possession of the cities in the Negev, which is the southern Judean wilderness.
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 \v 21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,
 \q2 and Yahweh will be their king.