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 \q1 Why is everyone foolishly running up to their flat rooftops?
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 \v 2 Everyone in the city seems to be shouting.
-\q2 There are a lot of corpses in the city,
+\q2 There are many corpses in the city,
 \q1 but they were not killed by their enemies' swords.
 \q2 They did not die in battles;
 \q2 instead, they died from diseases and hunger.
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 \q2 and thrown you away in a large distant land.
 \q1 You will die and be buried there,
 \q2 and your beautiful chariots will stay there in the hands of your enemies.
-\q2 And because of what happens to you, your master, the king, will be very ashamed.
+\q2 And because of what happens to you, your master the king will be very ashamed.
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 \v 19 Yahweh says, "I will force you to quit working in the palace;
 \q2 you will be forced out from your important position.
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 \v 22 I will give to him authority over what happens in the palace where King David lived; when he decides something, no one will be able to oppose it; when he refuses to do something, no one will be able to force him to do it.
 
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-\v 23 I will cause his family to be greatly respected, because I will put him firmly in his position as supervisor of the workers in the palace, like a nail that is firmly hammered into a wall.
+\v 23 I will cause his family to be greatly respected because I will put him firmly in his position as supervisor of the workers in the palace, like a nail that is firmly hammered into a wall.
 \v 24 Others will enable him to have much responsibility, with the result that all the members of his family, even the most insignificant ones, will be honored.
 
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@@ -2087,10 +2087,10 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
 
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-\v 4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed,
+\v 4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed
 \q2 because you trusted in Tyre, which has been a strong fortress on an island in the sea.
 \q1 Tyre is like a woman who is saying,
-\q2 "Now it is as though I have not given birth to any children,
+\q2 "Now it is as though I have not given birth to any children
 \q2 or raised any sons or daughters."
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 \v 5 When the people of Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre,
@@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
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 \v 10 You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land instead of trading;
-\q2 spread out over your land like the Nile River spreads over the land of Egypt when it floods,
+\q2 spread out over your land like the Nile River spreads over the land of Egypt when it floods
 \q2 because there is no harbor in Tyre for your ships now.
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 \v 11 It is as though Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea
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 \v 16 You harlot, whom people had forgotten,
 \q2 play your harp well,
 \q1 and sing many songs,
-\q2 in order that people will remember you again.
+\q2 so that people will remember you again.
 
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-\v 17 It is true that after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many other nations.
+\v 17 It is true that after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn much money by buying things from and selling things to many other nations.
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 \v 18 But their profits will be given to Yahweh.
 \q2 The merchants will not hoard their money;
-\q1 instead, they will give it to Yahweh's people, for they will live in his presence,
-\q2 in order that they can buy food and nice clothes.
+\q1 instead, they will give it to Yahweh's people, for they will live in his presence
+\q2 so that they can buy food and nice clothes.
 
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 \q2 and people will no longer shout noisily during their celebrations.
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 \v 9 People will no longer sing while they drink wine,
-\q2 and all their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
+\q2 and all of their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
 
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@@ -2219,11 +2219,11 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain.
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 \v 12 Cities will be ruined,
-\q2 and all their gates will be battered into pieces.
+\q2 and all of their gates will be battered into pieces.
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 \v 13 It will be like that all over the earth:
 \q2 there will only be a few people still alive,
-\q1 like what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left,
+\q1 as what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left,
 \q2 or when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left on the vines.
 
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 \v 20 It will be as though the earth will stagger like a drunk;
 \q2 it will shake like a hammock in a windstorm.
-\q1 It will collapse and not be able to rise again,
+\q1 It will collapse and not be able to rise again
 \q2 because the guilt of the people who rebel against Yahweh is very great.
 
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-\v 21 At that time, Yahweh will punish the wicked powerful beings in the skies
+\v 21 At that time, Yahweh will punish the wicked, powerful beings in the skies
 \q2 and the wicked kings on the earth.
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 \v 22 They will all be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon.
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 \q1 and later they will be punished.
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 \v 23 At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened;
-\q2 it will be as though they are ashamed in the presence of Yahweh,
-\q1 because he, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will rule gloriously on Mount Zion,
+\q2 it will be as though they are ashamed in the presence of Yahweh
+\q1 because he, Yahweh commander of the angel armies, will rule gloriously on Mount Zion
 \q2 in the presence of all the leaders of his people.
 
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