From 7512b2fa23441b168f160d432faccfff4c2d7d78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bobj Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:45:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] NAM edits/corrections --- 34-NAM.usfm | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/34-NAM.usfm b/34-NAM.usfm index 2de27133..2ee41303 100644 --- a/34-NAM.usfm +++ b/34-NAM.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \q2 He is very angry with those who worship other gods, \q2 and he continues to be angry with his enemies. \q1 -\v 3 Yahweh does not quickly become angry; +\v 3 Yahweh does not quickly become angry, \q2 but he is very powerful, \q2 and he will never say that his enemies are innocent. \q2 Wherever he walks, there are whirlwinds and storms, @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ \s5 \v 7 But he is good; -\q2 he protects us, his people, when we experience troubles. +\q2 he protects us his people when we experience troubles. \q2 He takes care of those who trust in him. \q1 \v 8 But he will get rid of his enemies; \q2 he will be to them like a flood that destroys everything. \q2 He will chase his enemies -\q2 into the darkness of the place where the dead are. +\q2 into the darkness of the place where dead people are. \q1 \s5 @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ \q2 He will not need to strike you two times to destroy you; \q2 he will destroy you by striking you only once. \q1 -\v 10 It will be as though his enemies are tangled in thorns -\q2 and they will stagger like people who have drunk a lot of wine. +\v 10 It will be as though his enemies are tangled in thorns, +\q2 and they will stagger like people who have drunk much wine. \q2 It will be as though they will be burned up like dry stubble. \q1 \v 11 In Nineveh there was a man who advised people to do very wicked things against Yahweh. @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ \q1 "Although the people of Assyria have very many people \q2 and their army is very powerful, \q2 they will be destroyed and they will disappear. -\q1 I say to my people in Judah, +\q1 I say to my people in Judah that \q2 I have already punished you, \q2 but I will not punish you again. \q1 \v 13 Now I will cause the people of Assyria to no longer enslave you; - it will be as though I will tear off the shackles on your hands and feet." + it will be as though I will tear off the shackles that are on your hands and feet." \s5 \m @@ -81,17 +81,17 @@ \q1 "You will not have any descendants who will continue to have your family names. \q2 And I will destroy all the statues of your gods \q2 that were carved or formed in molds. -\q1 I will cause you to be killed and sent to your graves, +\q1 I will cause you to be killed and sent to your graves because you are vile!" \s5 \q1 -\v 15 You people of Judah. Look! A messenger will come across the mountains, +\v 15 You people of Judah, look! A messenger will come across the mountains, \q2 and he will bring good news to you. \q1 He will declare that you will now have peace. \q2 So celebrate your festivals, and do what you solemnly promised \q2 to do when your enemies were threatening to attack you, -\q1 because your wicked enemies will not invade your country again, +\q1 because your wicked enemies will not invade your country again \q2 because they will be completely destroyed. \s5 @@ -123,14 +123,14 @@ \v 6 The enemy soldiers will force open the city gates on the rivers; \q2 the palace will collapse. \q1 -\v 7 The queen will have her clothes stripped off her by enemy soldiers, +\v 7 The queen will have her clothes stripped off of her by enemy soldiers, \q2 and her slave girls will moan like doves \q2 and beat their breasts to show that they are very sad. \s5 \v 8 The people will rush from Nineveh -\q2 like water rushes from a broken dam. -\q2 The officials will shout, "Stop! Stop!" +\q2 as water rushes from a broken dam. +\q2 The officials will shout "Stop! Stop!" \q2 but the people will not even look back as they run away. \q1 \v 9 The enemy attackers say to each other, @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ \s5 \v 11 After that happens, people will say, \q2 "What happened to that great city of Nineveh? -\q2 It was like a den full of young lions, +\q2 It was like a den full of young lions \q2 where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones, where they were afraid of nothing. \q1 \v 12 The soldiers in Nineveh were like lions that killed or strangled other animals @@ -159,29 +159,29 @@ \q2 I will cause your chariots to burn in fire and go up in smoke. \q2 Your young men will be killed with swords. \q2 I will make all the valuable things you stole from other nations disappear. -\q2 Your messengers will never again take messages to other nations, demanding that +\q2 Your messengers will never again take messages to other nations demanding that \q2 their armies surrender to them." \s5 \c 3 \q1 -\v 1 Terrible things will happen to Nineveh, that city that is full of people who murder, steal and lie. The city is full of people who the soldiers carried away from other countries. +\v 1 Terrible things will happen to Nineveh, that city that is full of people who murder, steal, and lie. The city is full of people who the soldiers carried away from other countries. \v 2 But now listen to the enemy soldiers coming to attack Nineveh; listen to them cracking their whips, and listen to the rattle of their chariot wheels! Listen to their galloping horses and their chariots as they bounce along! \s5 -\v 3 Look at their flashing swords and glittering spears as the horsemen race forward! Many people of Nineveh will be killed; there will be piles of corpses, so many that the attackers will stumble over them. +\v 3 Look at their flashing swords and glittering spears as the horsemen race forward! Many people of Nineveh will be killed; there will be piles of corpses—so many that the attackers will stumble over them. \v 4 All that will happen because Nineveh is like a beautiful prostitute \q2 who lures men to where they will be ruined; \q2 Nineveh is a beautiful city \q2 that has attracted people of other nations to come there. -\q2 The people of Nineveh taught those people of other nations rituals of magic, +\q2 The people of Nineveh taught those people of other nations rituals of magic \q2 and caused them to become their slaves. \q1 \s5 \v 5 So Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says to the people of Nineveh: \q2 "I am your enemy, and I will cause the people -\q2 in other nations to see you completely humiliated; +\q2 in other nations to see you completely humiliated \q2 like women who have committed adultery are humiliated \q2 by having their skirts lifted high, \q2 with the result that people can see their naked bodies. @@ -244,14 +244,14 @@ there was no limit to their power. \q1 Go ahead and increase your population like swarms of locusts and grasshoppers. \s5 -\v 16 In your city there are now very many merchants; -\q2 more than stars. +\v 16 In your city there are now very many merchants, +\q2 more than the number of stars in the sky. \q2 But when your city is being destroyed, \q2 those merchants will take the valuable things and disappear \q2 like locusts that strip the leaves from plants and then fly away. \q1 \v 17 Your leaders are also like a swarm of locusts -\q2 that crowd together on the fences on a cold day, +\q2 that crowd together on the fences on a cold day \q2 and then fly away when the sun comes up, \q2 and no one knows where they have gone. \q1