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 \v 1 Ask Yahweh to cause rain to fall in the springtime, because he is the one who makes the clouds from which the rain falls in storms. He causes showers to fall on us, and he causes crops to grow well in the fields.
-\v 2 What people think that the idols in their houses say is only nonsense, and people who say that they can interpret dreams tell only lies. When they tell people things to comfort them, what they say is useless, so the people who consult them are like lost sheep; they are in danger because they have no one to protect them like sheep with no shepherd.
+\v 2 What people think that the idols in their houses say is only nonsense, and people who say that they can interpret dreams tell only lies. When they tell people things to comfort them, what they say is useless, so the people who consult them are like lost sheep; they are in danger because they have no one to protect them, like sheep with no shepherd.
 
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-\v 3 Yahweh says, "I am angry with the leaders of my people, and I will punish them. I, Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, I will take care of my people, the people of Judah, like a shepherd takes care of his flock, and I will cause them to be like war horses in battle.
+\v 3 Yahweh says, "I am angry with the leaders of my people, and I will punish them. I, Yahweh commander of the angel armies, will take care of my people, the people of Judah, as a shepherd takes care of his flock, and I will cause them to be like war horses in battle.
 
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-\v 4 From Judah will come rulers who will be very important. From Judah will come leaders who will hold the people together, like a tent peg keeps a tent up. From Judah will come leaders who will take the soldiers into war, like a king holding his own bow for battle. From them will come every one of their own leaders.
+\v 4 From Judah will come rulers who will be very important. From Judah will come leaders who will hold the people together as a tent peg keeps a tent up. From Judah will come leaders who will take the soldiers into war, like a king holding his own bow for battle. From them will come every one of their own leaders.
 \v 5 They will be like mighty warriors who trample their enemies into the mud during battle. I, Yahweh, will be with them, so they will defeat and shame their enemies who ride on horses.
 
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-\v 6 I will make the people of Judah strong, and I will rescue the people of Israel. I will bring them back from the countries to which they were exiled; I will do that because I pity them. Then it will be as though I had never abandoned them because I am Yahweh, their God, and I will answer them when they pray for help.
+\v 6 I will make the people of Judah strong, and I will rescue the people of Israel. I will bring them back from the countries to which they were exiled; I will do that because I pity them. Then it will be as though I had never abandoned them because I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them when they pray for help.
 \v 7 The people of Israel will then be like strong soldiers; they will be as happy as people who have drunk a lot of wine. Their children will see their fathers being very happy, and they also will be happy because of what I have done for them.
 
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 \v 8 I will signal for my people to return from far away, and I will gather them together in their own country. I will rescue them, and they will become very numerous as they were previously.
 \v 9 I have caused them to be scattered among many peoples, but in those distant countries they will think about me again. They and their children will remain alive and return to Judah.
-\v 10 I will bring them back from Egypt and from Assyria; I will bring them back to the regions of Gilead and Lebanon, but there not be enough space for them all to live there.
+\v 10 I will bring them back from Egypt and from Assyria; I will bring them back to the regions of Gilead and Lebanon, but there will not be enough space for them all to live there.
 
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-\v 11 I will go before them through their sufferings, as if I were walking through a sea, but I will calm those waves and end their sufferings, as if I were drying up the Nile River. I will defeat the proud soldiers of Assyria, and I will cause Egypt to no longer be powerful.
+\v 11 I will go before them through their sufferings as if I were walking through a sea, but I will calm those waves and end their sufferings as if I were drying up the Nile River. I will defeat the proud soldiers of Assyria, and I will cause Egypt to no longer be powerful.
 \v 12 I will enable my people to be strong, and they will honor me and obey me. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
 
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 \v 4 This is what Yahweh my God said to me: "I want you to supervise this flock of sheep until the flock perishes.
-\v 5 The dealers in sheep will kill the sheep, and no one will punish them. Those who sell the sheep will say, 'I praise Yahweh, because I will become rich!' And the shepherds whom the owners hire do not feel sorry for the sheep.
-\v 6 And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow their fellow countrymen and their king, to oppress them. They will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any of them."
+\v 5 The dealers in sheep will kill the sheep, and no one will punish them. Those who sell the sheep will say, 'I praise Yahweh because I will become rich!' And the shepherds whom the owners hire do not feel sorry for the sheep.
+\v 6 And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow their fellow countrymen and their king to oppress them. They will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any of them."
 
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-\v 10 Then I took the staff that I had named 'Kindness,' and I broke it. I did this because Yahweh had told me to cancel the covenant that he had made with all his tribes of Israel.
+\v 10 Then I took the staff I had named 'Kindness,' and I broke it. I did this because Yahweh had told me to cancel the covenant he had made with all his tribes of Israel.
 \v 11 So that covenant was ended on that very day. The dealers who were watching me knew by seeing what I was doing that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.
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 \v 12 I told them, "If you think it is right, pay me for my work. If you do not think it is right, do not pay me." So they paid me only thirty pieces of silver.
 
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-\v 13 Then Yahweh said to me, "That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have for your work. So put it into the treasury." So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I deposited it in the treasury there.
+\v 13 Then Yahweh said to me, "That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you for your work. So put it into the treasury." So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I deposited it in the treasury there.
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 \v 14 Then I broke my second staff, the one that I had named "Union." That indicated that Judah and Israel would no longer be together as brothers.
 
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 \v 1 This is a message from Yahweh concerning Israel—Yahweh, the one who stretched out the sky, who created the earth, and who gave life to human beings. This is what he says:
-\v 2 "I will soon cause Jerusalem to be like a cup full of very strong alcoholic drink, and the people of other nations who drink it will stagger around. The people of Judah will drink it, too, for they also will suffer when the enemy besieges Jerusalem.
+\v 2 "I will soon cause Jerusalem to be like a cup full of very strong alcoholic drink, and the people of other nations who drink it will stagger around. The people of Judah will also drink it, for they also will suffer when the enemy besieges Jerusalem.
 \v 3 At that time, the armies of all the peoples will gather to attack Jerusalem, but I will cause Jerusalem to be like a very heavy rock, and all who try to lift it will be badly injured. This will happen when the armies of all the world's nations attack Jerusalem.
 
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-\v 4 At that time I will cause every one of their enemies' horses to panic, and their riders to become crazy. I will protect the people of Judah, but I will cause all their enemies' horses to become blind.
-\v 5 Then the leaders of Judah will say to themselves, 'The people in Jerusalem encourage us because Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, is the one they worship.'
+\v 4 At that time I will cause every one of their enemies' horses to panic and their riders to become crazy. I will protect the people of Judah, but I will cause all of their enemies' horses to become blind.
+\v 5 Then the leaders of Judah will say to themselves, 'The people in Jerusalem encourage us because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the one they worship.'
 
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-\v 6 At that time I will make the leaders of Judah like a pot of fire that someone puts in piles of firewood; and like a burning torch in a field of ripe grain. The leaders of Judah and their soldiers will destroy the peoples surrounding them in all directions. But the people of Jerusalem will remain safe in their own city."
+\v 6 At that time I will make the leaders of Judah like a pot of fire that someone puts in piles of firewood and like a burning torch in a field of ripe grain. The leaders of Judah and their soldiers will destroy the peoples surrounding them in all directions. But the people of Jerusalem will remain safe in their own city."
 
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-\v 7 Yahweh will protect those who live in the other places in Judah before he rescues the people of Jerusalem, in order that people will not honor the descendants of David and those in Jerusalem more than the people in all the rest of Judah.
+\v 7 Yahweh will protect those who live in the other places in Judah before he rescues the people of Jerusalem so that people will not honor the descendants of David and those in Jerusalem more than the people in all the rest of Judah.
 \v 8 At that time, Yahweh will protect everyone in Jerusalem. The weakest soldiers among them will be as strong as David was, and the descendants of David will be like God; they will lead the others like the angel of Yahweh himself.
 \v 9 "At that time, I will start to destroy all the armies that attack Jerusalem."
 
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-\v 10 "I, Yahweh, will cause the descendants of David to have mercy on others, and to beg me to have mercy on themselves. They will gaze at me, whom they pierced." They will cry bitterly, as people cry for a firstborn son, an only son, who has died.
+\v 10 "I, Yahweh, will cause the descendants of David to have mercy on others and to beg me to have mercy on themselves. They will gaze at me whom they pierced." They will cry bitterly, as people cry for a firstborn son, an only son, who has died.
 \v 11 At that time, many people in Jerusalem will be crying bitterly, as people cry at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
 
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 \v 12 Many people in Judah will cry, each clan by themselves. The male descendants of David will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves; the male descendants of Nathan will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves.
 \v 13 The male descendants of Levi will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves; the male descendants of Shimei will mourn by themselves, and their wives will mourn by themselves.
-\v 14 All the clans will mourn separately, their males by themselves, and their wives by themselves."
+\v 14 All the clans will mourn separately, their males by themselves and their wives by themselves."
 
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-\v 1 At that time it will be as though there is a spring of water that will continuously flow to cleanse the descendants of King David and all the other people in Jerusalem from the guilt of the sins that they have committed, especially from becoming unacceptable to Yahweh by worshiping idols.
+\v 1 At that time it will be as though there is a spring of water that will continuously flow to cleanse the descendants of King David and all the other people in Jerusalem from the guilt of the sins they have committed, especially from becoming unacceptable to Yahweh by worshiping idols.
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-\v 2 Yahweh, the Commander of angel armies, says, "At that time, I will prevent people from even mentioning the names of the idols in their country, and no one will worship them anymore. I will also drive away from the land all the people who falsely claim that they are prophets; I will also drive away the evil spirit that leads them to tell the people false messages from me.
+\v 2 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says, "At that time, I will prevent people from even mentioning the names of the idols in their country, and no one will worship them anymore. I will also drive away from the land all the people who falsely claim that they are prophets; I will also drive away the evil spirit that leads them to tell the people false messages from me.
 
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 \v 3 If someone continues to prophesy falsely, his own parents, even though he is their own son, will say to him, 'You have told lies saying that Yahweh gave those messages to you, so you must die.' Then they will stab him and kill him.
 
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-\v 4 At that time, the false prophets will be ashamed to announce that he has received any vision at all. They will no longer put on cloaks made with animal hair that prophets normally wear, because they will want the people to think that they were never really prophets at all.
+\v 4 At that time, the false prophets will be ashamed to announce that they have received any vision at all. They will no longer put on cloaks made with animal hair that prophets normally wear, because they will want the people to think that they were never really prophets at all.
 \v 5 So each of them will say, 'I am not really a prophet; I am a farmer, and I have been a farmer on my land ever since I was a boy!'
 \v 6 But others will see scars on their bodies and think that they cut themselves in order to please idols while they were worshiping them. So they will ask, 'Why do you have those scars?' And they will tell a lie: 'I was injured in a quarrel at my friend's house.'"
 
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-\v 7 Yahweh, the Commander of angel armies, says,
+\v 7 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says,
 \q "Someone must attack and kill the one who is like a shepherd working for me,
 \q the man who is my close companion.
 \q You with the sword! When you kill my shepherd, my people will run away like sheep.
 \q And I myself will attack my ordinary people, those who are like little sheep."
 
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-\v 8 Yahweh also says, "Two-thirds of the people in Judah will die;
-Only one-third of the people in Judah will remain alive.
-\v 9 I will test the ones that remain alive by causing them to experience great difficulties, to find out if they will continue to worship me.
-I will purify them as someone purifies gold or silver by putting it into a very hot fire.
-Then my people will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will say that I, Yahweh, am the God they worship and obey.
+\v 8 Yahweh also says, "Two-thirds of the people in Judah will die; only one-third of the people in Judah will remain alive.
+\v 9 I will test the ones who remain alive by causing them to experience great difficulties to find out if they will continue to worship me. I will purify them as someone purifies gold or silver by putting it into a very hot fire. Then my people will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will say that I, Yahweh, am the God they worship and obey.
 
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 \v 4 On that day, he will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives will split into two parts, with a large valley between the parts. Half of the mount will move toward the north, and half will move toward the south.
 
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-\v 5 You people of Jerusalem will flee through that valley which extends to the other side of the mount, all the way to the village of Azel. It will be just as when people fled when there was an earthquake when Uzziah was king. Then Yahweh my God will come, and his own angels will be with him.
+\v 5 You people of Jerusalem will flee through that valley that extends to the other side of the mount all the way to the village of Azel. It will be just as when people fled when there was an earthquake when Uzziah was king. Then Yahweh my God will come, and his own angels will be with him.
 
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 \v 6 At that time, there will be no light from the sun, but it will not be cold or frosty.
-\v 7 Only Yahweh knows when this will happen. There will be no daytime or nighttime, because it will be light all the time, even in the evening.
+\v 7 Only Yahweh knows when this will happen. There will be no daytime or nighttime because it will be light all the time, even in the evening.
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 \v 8 At that time, water will flow from Jerusalem. One stream will flow toward the east to the Dead Sea. The other stream will flow toward the west to the Mediterranean Sea. The water will flow all the time, even during the hot season as well as in the cold season.
 
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 \v 9 After that time, Yahweh will be the king who rules the entire world. Everyone will know that Yahweh, and only Yahweh, is the true God.
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-\v 10 At that time, all the land in Judah will be flat, like the plain along the Jordan, from the town of Geba in the north to the town of Rimmon far to the south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will remain high up, as it has always been. The city will extend northeast from the Benjamin Gate and the Corner Gate, which was the old gate, and to the Tower of Hananel, and then extending to the king's winepresses to the southwest.
+\v 10 At that time, all the land in Judah will be flat like the plain along the Jordan, from the town of Geba in the north to the town of Rimmon far to the south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will remain high up, as it has always been. The city will extend northeast from the Benjamin Gate and the Corner Gate, which was the old gate, to the Tower of Hananel and then extending to the king's winepresses to the southwest.
 \v 11 Many people will live there, and God will never again threaten the city with destruction. It will be a completely safe city to live in.
 
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 \v 13 At that time, Yahweh will cause them to panic. They will grab hold of each other and attack each other.
 
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-\v 14 Even the people who live in other places in Judah will attack Jerusalem. They will collect the valuable things, the plunder, from the surrounding armies of the nations—a lot of gold and silver and clothes.
+\v 14 Even the people who live in other places in Judah will attack Jerusalem. They will collect the valuable things, the plunder, from the surrounding armies of the nations—a great amount of gold and silver and clothes.
 \v 15 The same plague that will afflict the people of other nations will afflict the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other work animals in their camps.
 
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-\v 16 The people of other nations who previously came to fight against Jerusalem, all those who are still alive, will return to Jerusalem every year to worship the King, Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
+\v 16 The people of other nations who previously came to fight against Jerusalem, all those who are still alive, will return to Jerusalem every year to worship the King, Yahweh commander of the angel armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
 \v 17 If there are people in those nations who do not go to Jerusalem to worship there, rain will not fall on their land.
 \v 18 If the people of Egypt do not go to Jerusalem, they will not have any rain. And Yahweh will cause them to suffer the same plague that afflicted the people of other nations that do not celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
 
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 \v 20 At that time, the words "Dedicated to Yahweh" will be written on the bells that are fastened to the horses. The cooking pots in the courtyard of the temple will belong to Yahweh, like the bowls that are in front of the altar.
-\v 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and everywhere else in Judah will be dedicated to Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies. So everyone who offers sacrifices there in Jerusalem will be able to take some of the meat that has been brought for sacrifices and cook it in their own pots. And at that time, people will no longer buy or sell things in the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh, the Commander of the angel armies.
+\v 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and everywhere else in Judah will be dedicated to Yahweh, commander of the angel armies. So everyone who offers sacrifices there in Jerusalem will be able to take some of the meat that has been brought for sacrifices and cook it in their own pots. And at that time, people will no longer buy or sell things in the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh, commander of the angel armies.