JOL edits/corrections

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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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 \v 4 I am talking about the locusts that have eaten our crops.
-\q2 The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops;
+\q2 The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops,
 \q1 then another swarm came and ate the rest of the leaves,
 \q2 then another swarm came hopping along,
 \q1 and finally another swarm came
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
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 \v 5 You people who are drunk, wake up!
-\q2 Wake up and wail loudly,
+\q2 Wake up and wail loudly
 \q1 because all the grapes are ruined,
-\q2 and so there will be no new wine!
+\q2 so there will be no new wine!
 \q1
 \v 6 Huge swarms of locusts have entered our country.
 \q2 They are like a powerful army
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 \q1 The locusts have teeth that are as sharp as the teeth of lions!
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 \v 7 They have destroyed our grapevines and our fig trees
-\q2 by stripping off and eating all the bark,
+\q2 by stripping off and eating all the bark
 \q2 with the result that the branches are white and bare.
 
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
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 \v 11 You farmers, grieve!
-\q2 You who take care of grapevines, wail,
+\q2 You who take care of grapevines, wail
 \q1 because the grain has been destroyed;
 \q2 there is no wheat or barley growing.
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
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 \v 13 You priests, put on rough sack clothes and wail.
 \q2 You who serve God by offering sacrifices on the altar,
-\q1 wear those sack clothes all night to show that you are mourning,
+\q1 wear those sack clothes all night to show that you are mourning
 \q2 because there is no flour or wine to be offered at the temple of your God.
 \q1
 \v 14 Set apart a day for when the people should go without food.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 \v 18 Our cattle groan, searching for a pasture with some grass to eat,
 \q2 and the sheep bleat because they are suffering.
 \q1
-\v 19 Yahweh, I cry out to you,
+\v 19 Yahweh, I cry out to you
 \q2 because our pastures and our forests have dried up in the hot sunshine.
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 \v 20 It is as though even the wild animals cry out to you
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
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 \v 1 Blow trumpets on Mount Zion,
 \q2 God's sacred hill in Jerusalem!
-\q1 Tell the people of Judah that they should be afraid and tremble,
+\q1 Tell the people of Judah that they should be afraid and tremble
 \q2 because it will soon be the time for Yahweh to punish us further.
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 \v 2 That will be a very dark and gloomy day;
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@
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 \v 12 But Yahweh says,
 \q1 "In spite of these disasters that you have experienced,
-\q2 you can return to me with all your inner being.
-\q1 Weep, and mourn, and fast to show that you are sorry that you have abandoned me.
+\q2 you can return to me with all of your inner being.
+\q1 Weep, mourn, and fast to show that you are sorry that you have abandoned me.
 \q1
 \v 13 Do not tear only your clothes
 \q2 to show that you are sorry;
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
 \q2 and instead act mercifully toward you.
 \q1 If he does that, he will bless you
 \q2 by giving you plenty of grain and wine
-\q2 in order that you can offer some of those things for sacrifices to him.
+\q2 so that you can offer some of those things for sacrifices to him.
 
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@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
 \q2 and the grapevines will be covered with grapes.
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 \v 23 You people of Jerusalem,
-\q2 rejoice about what Yahweh, your God, will do for you.
+\q2 rejoice about what Yahweh your God will do for you.
 \q1 He will send abundant rain at the right time—
 \q2 in the spring and in the autumn,
 \q2 as he did previously.
@@ -264,12 +264,12 @@
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 \v 26 You, my people, will eat until your stomachs are full.
-\q2 Then you will praise me, Yahweh, your God,
-\q2 for the wonderful things that I have done for you.
+\q2 Then you will praise me, Yahweh your God,
+\q2 for the wonderful things I have done for you.
 \q1 And never again will I let others shame you.
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 \v 27 When that happens, you will know that I am always among you,
-\q2 that I am Yahweh, your God,
+\q2 that I am Yahweh your God,
 \q2 and that there is no other God.
 \q1 Never again will I let others shame you."
 
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
 \v 2 Then in the Valley of Jehoshaphat I will gather together the people of all the other nations;
 \q2 I will judge and punish them
 \q1 because they scattered my Israelite people
-\q2 and forced them to go to other countries,
+\q2 and forced them to go to other countries
 \q2 and because they divided up my land among themselves.
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 \v 3 They played games of chance to determine who would get each of my people.
@@ -315,14 +315,14 @@
 
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-\v 4 You people of the cities of Tyre and Sidon, and you people of Philistia—you are angry at me, but you have no reason to be. If you are trying to get revenge on me, I will very quickly get revenge on you.
+\v 4 You people of the cities of Tyre and Sidon and you people of Philistia—you are angry at me, but you have no reason to be. If you are trying to get revenge on me, I will very quickly get revenge on you.
 \v 5 You took the silver and gold and other valuable things from my temple and put them into your own temples.
 \v 6 You dragged away the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and you took them far away and sold them to Greek traders.
 
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 \v 7 But I will make it possible for my people to return from the places to which you sold them, and I will do to you what you did to them.
-\v 8 Then I will cause some of your sons and your daughters to be sold to the people of Judah! And they will be sold to the Sabea people, who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
+\v 8 Then I will cause some of your sons and your daughters to be sold to the people of Judah! And they will be sold to the people of Sheba, who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
 
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@@ -346,11 +346,11 @@
 \v 12 Yahweh says, "The people in the nations near Judah must get ready and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
 \q2 There I will sit as a judge, and I will punish them.
 \q1
-\v 13 They are like crops that are ready to be harvested;
+\v 13 They are like crops that are ready to be harvested,
 \q2 so strike them as a farmer swings his sickle to cut the grain.
 \q1 They are like grapes that are piled high in the pits where they will be pressed;
 \q2 because they are very wicked,
-\q1 punish them severely now,
+\q1 punish them severely now
 \q2 as a farmer tramples on the grapes until the pits overflow with juice."
 
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@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@
 \v 18 At that time, there will be vineyards covering the hills,
 \q2 and your cattle and goats on those hills will produce plenty of milk.
 \q2 The streams in Judah will never dry up,
-\q1 And a stream will flow from my temple into the Valley of Acacia northeast of the Dead Sea.
+\q1 and a stream will flow from my temple into the Valley of Acacias northeast of the Dead Sea.
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 \v 19 The armies of Egypt and Edom attacked the people of Judah
 \q2 and killed many people who had not done anything that was wrong.