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-\v 1 These things occurred when Zedekiah was beginning his rule as king of Judah. It happened on the fourth year and fifth month of his rule, that Azzur's son Hananiah, a prophet from the city of Gibeon, spoke to Jeremiah in the courtyard of the temple, while all the priests and other people were listening. He said,
-\v 2 "This is what the Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, whom Israel worships, says: 'I will cause the king of Babylon to stop ruling you.
+\v 1 These things occurred when Zedekiah was beginning his rule as king of Judah. It happened on the fourth year and fifth month of his rule that Azzur's son Hananiah, a prophet from the city of Gibeon, spoke to Jeremiah in the courtyard of the temple while all the priests and other people were listening. He said,
+\v 2 "This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, whom Israel worships, says: 'I will cause the king of Babylon to stop ruling you.
 
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 \v 3 Within two years, I will cause to be brought back to this temple all the valuable things that King Nebuchadnezzar's soldiers took from this temple and took to Babylon.
-\v 4 And I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin, who was the son of the Jehoiakim, the King of Judah, and all the other people who were captured and taken to Babylon. The king of Babylon has forced you to do what he wants, like someone puts a yoke on the neck of an ox to force it to do what he wants it to do. But I will cause that to end. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
+\v 4 And I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the other people who were captured and taken to Babylon. The king of Babylon has forced you to do what he wants, as someone puts a yoke on the neck of an ox to force it to do what he wants it to do. But I will cause that to end. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
 
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-\v 5 Jeremiah replied to Hananiah in front of all the priests and other people whom were standing outside the temple.
-\v 6 He said, "I want that to be true! I desire that what you have predicted will happen just as you said! I hope that he will cause men from Babylon to bring back all the valuable things that were in this temple, and all the people who were taken to Babylon.
+\v 5 Jeremiah replied to Hananiah in front of all the priests and other people who were standing outside the temple.
+\v 6 He said, "I want that to be true! I desire that what you have predicted will happen just as you said! I hope that he will cause men from Babylon to bring back all the valuable things that were in this temple and all the people who were taken to Babylon.
 \v 7 But now listen to what I say to you while all these people are listening.
 
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 \v 10 Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck and broke it.
-\v 11 Then he said this to all the people who were there: "This is what Yahweh says: 'Just like Hananiah has broken this yoke, within two years I will cause King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to stop forcing the people to do what he wants, which has been like a heavy yoke on all their necks .'" After Hananiah said that, Jeremiah left the temple area.
+\v 11 Then he said this to all the people who were there: "This is what Yahweh says: 'Just as Hananiah has broken this yoke, within two years I will cause King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to stop forcing the people to do what he wants, which has been like a heavy yoke on all their necks.'" After Hananiah said that, Jeremiah left the temple area.
 
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 \v 12 Soon after Hananiah had broken the yoke that was around the neck of Jeremiah, Yahweh gave this message to me:
-\v 13 "Go and say this to Hananiah: 'Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, whom Israel worships, says that you have broken a wooden yoke, but that he will replace it with an iron yoke.
+\v 13 "Go and say this to Hananiah: 'Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, whom Israel worships, says that you have broken a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.
 \v 14 I have forced the people of all these nations to become slaves of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. That is like an iron yoke around their necks. I have put everything, even wild animals, under his control.'"
 
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 \v 15 Then Jeremiah went to Hananiah and said to him, "Hananiah, listen to this: Yahweh has not appointed you; instead, you have told lies to the people, and they have believed your lies.
-\v 16 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: 'You will soon die. Before the end of this year, you will die, because you have encouraged people to act against Yahweh.'"
+\v 16 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: 'You will soon die. Before the end of this year, you will die because you have encouraged people to act against Yahweh.'"
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 \v 17 Hananiah died two months later.
 
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 \v 1-2 After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah and Jerusalem, and all the various kinds of craftsmen had been exiled to Babylon, Jeremiah wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by soldiers of Nebuchadnezzar.
-\v 3 He gave the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is the letter that Jeremiah wrote, the message that Yahweh gave him.
+\v 3 He gave the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is the letter that Jeremiah wrote, the message that Yahweh gave him.
 
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 \v 5 "Build houses there, and plan to stay there because you will be there for many years. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.
 
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-\v 6 Get married and have children. Then when they grow up, choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they also may have children. In that way, the number of your people will increase, not decrease.
-\v 7 Also, do things that will cause things to go well for the other people there in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for the people in that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, also."
+\v 6 Get married and have children. Then when they grow up, choose wives for your sons and husbands for your daughters so that they also may have children. In that way, the number of your people will increase and not decrease.
+\v 7 Also, do things that will cause things to go well for the other people there in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for the people in that city, because if things go well for them, things will also go well for you."
 
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 \v 8 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says: "There are false prophets and fortune tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to them when they tell you their dreams,
-\v 9 because they are telling you lies, saying that I have given them the messages that they are telling you. But, I have not appointed them."
+\v 9 because they are telling you lies, saying that I have given them the messages that they are telling you. But I have not appointed them."
 
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-\v 10 This is also what Yahweh says: "After you and your children have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here to Jerusalem.
+\v 10 This is also what Yahweh says: "After you and your children have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here to Jerusalem.
 \v 11 I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you can confidently expect to receive in the future that your people will survive to see.
 
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 \v 15 Some of you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you there in Babylon.
-\v 16 But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules here in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are still living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
+\v 16 But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules here in Jerusalem and about all the other people who are still living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
 \v 17 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this: "I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.
 
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 \v 18 I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I force them to be taken, I will cause them to be people whom others curse and be horrified about and mock.
-\v 19 That will happen because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you who have been exiled to Babylon have not paid attention to them, either." That is what Yahweh says.
+\v 19 That will happen because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you who have been exiled to Babylon have not paid attention to them either." That is what Yahweh says.
 
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 \v 20 Therefore, you people who have been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
-\v 21 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages from him: "They will be seized and taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
+\v 21 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and about Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages from him: "They will be seized and taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
 
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 \v 22 Because of what will happen to them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: 'I hope that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon caused to be killed by being burned in a fire.'
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 \v 27 So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth, who pretends that he is a prophet among you?
-\v 28 He sent a letter to us who are here in Babylon, saying that we will be here for a long time. He said that therefore we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens."
+\v 28 He sent a letter to us who are here in Babylon, saying that we will be here for a long time. He said that therefore we should build houses and plan to stay here and plant gardens and eat the food that is produced in the gardens."
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 \v 29 But when Zephaniah the priest received the letter from you, he brought it to me and read it to me.
 
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 \v 30 Then Yahweh gave me this message:
 \v 31 "Send this message to all the people from Judah who are there in Babylon: Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: 'I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
-\v 32 So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do many good things for you, my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, because they will be dead. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!'"
+\v 32 So I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do many good things for you, my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things because they will be dead. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!'"
 
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 \v 1 Yahweh gave Jeremiah another message. He said,
-\v 2 "I, Yahweh, the God of Israel am telling you to write down everything that I have said to you.
+\v 2 "I, Yahweh, the God of Israel, am telling you to write down everything that I have said to you.
 \v 3 I want you to know that I will free my people, the people of Israel and Judah, from being slaves in Babylon. I will bring them back to this land that I gave to their ancestors, and this land will belong to them again. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
 
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 \q1 People in other countries will no longer enslave them.
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 \v 9 My people will again serve me, Yahweh, their God,
-\q2 and they will serve a king who is a descendant of King David;
+\q2 and they will serve a king who is a descendant of King David,
 \q2 and I will appoint this king for them.
 
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 \v 10 So, you people of Israel who serve me,
 \q2 do not be dismayed now,
 \q1 because I will bring you back from distant places;
-\q2 I will bring your descendants back home from the land where they had been exiled.
+\q2 I will bring your descendants back home from the land where they were exiled.
 \q1 Then you Israelite people will again live peacefully and safely,
 \q2 and there will not be any nation that will cause you to be terrified.
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 \v 14 All your allies have deserted you
 \q2 and they do not want to help you anymore.
 \q1 It is true that I have punished you severely,
-\q2 like your enemies would wound you,
+\q2 as your enemies would wound you,
 \q1 because you have committed many sins
 \q2 and you are very guilty.
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 \v 15 Because that is true, why do you protest about my punishing you,
 \q2 as though I had caused a wound that could not be cured?
-\q1 It was necessary for me to punish you,
+\q1 It was necessary for me to punish you
 \q2 because you had committed many sins
 \q2 and you were very guilty.
 
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 \q2 will have their valuable possessions stolen,
 \q1 and all those who attack you will be attacked.
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-\v 17 Everyone says that you are outcasts,
+\v 17 Everyone says that you are outcasts
 \q2 and that you live in Jerusalem, a city that no one cares about."
 \p But Yahweh says,
 \q1 "I will heal your injuries
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-\v 20 Their children will prosper like they did before.
+\v 20 Their children will prosper as they did before.
 \q2 I will cause them to be a group of people who worship me,
 \q2 and I will punish any nation that oppresses them.
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 \v 21 One of their own people will be their king,
-\q2 and I will invite him to come close to me to worship me,
+\q2 and I will invite him to come close to me to worship me
 \q1 because no one would dare to come close to me
 \q2 if I did not invite him.
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 \v 5 Again you will plant your vineyards on the hills of Samaria,
 \q2 and you will eat the grapes that grow there.
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-\v 6 There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria ,
+\v 6 There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria,
 \q 'Come, let us go up to Jerusalem
 \q2 to worship Yahweh, our God!'"