PDF Jeremiah 1-15

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 \v 7 Yahweh of hosts says this, "See, I am about to refine them and test them,
 \q for what else can I do, because of what my people have done?
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-\v 8 Their tongues are sharpened arrows; they speak unfaithful things.
+\v 8 Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deceit.
 \q With their mouths they proclaim peace with their neighbors, but with their hearts they lie in wait for them.
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 \v 9 Should I not punish them because of these things—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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-\v 10 I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows.
-\q For they are laid waste and no one can pass through them, and the lowing of the cattle is not heard.
+\v 10 I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a dirge will be sung for the meadows in the wilderness.
+\q For they have been made desolate and no one can pass through them, and the lowing of the cattle is not heard.
 \q The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away.
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 \v 11 So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals.
 \q I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants."
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 \v 12 What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it?
-\q Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass through?
+\q Why has the land perished and been made desolate like the wilderness that no one can pass through?
 
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 \q We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land since they tore down our houses.'
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 \v 20 So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth.
-\q Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song.
+\q Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a dirge.
 
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 \v 25 "See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.
-\v 26 I will punish Egypt and Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all the people who cut the hair on their heads very short. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel has an uncircumcised heart."
+\v 26 I will punish Egypt and Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all the desert people who cut the hair on the sides of their heads very short. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel has an uncircumcised heart."
 
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-\v 3 For the customs of these people are worthless;
-\q someone cuts down a tree from the forest, and the craftsman shapes it with his tool.
+\v 3 For the customs of these people are worthless.
+\q Someone cuts down a tree from the forest.
+\q It is the work of the hands of a craftsman using an axe.
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 \v 4 Then they decorate it with silver and gold. They strengthen it with hammer and nails so it will not fall over.
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-\v 8 They are all the same, they are brutish and stupid, disciples of idols that are nothing but wood.
+\v 8 They are both brutish and stupid.
+\q Their vain discipline—it is nothing but wood.
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 \v 9 They bring hammered silver from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz made by artificers,
 \q the hands of refiners. Their clothes are blue and purple cloth. Their skillful men made all of these things.
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-\v 14 Every man has become ignorant, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols.
-\q For his cast images are frauds; there is no life in them.
+\v 14 Every man has become stupid, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols.
+\q For his cast metal images are frauds; there is no life in them.
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 \v 15 They are useless, the work of mockers; they will perish at the time of their punishment.
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 \v 3 Say to them, 'Yahweh, God of Israel says this: Cursed is anyone who does not listen to the words of this covenant.
 \v 4 This is the covenant that I commanded your ancestors to keep the day I brought them out from the land of Egypt, from the furnace for smelting iron. I said, "Listen to my voice and do all of these things just as I have commanded you, for you will be my people and I will be your God."
-\v 5 Obey me so that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your ancestors, the oath that I would give them the land flowing with milk and honey, where you live today.'" Then I, Jeremiah, answered and said, "Yes, Yahweh!"
+\v 5 Obey me so that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your ancestors, the oath that I would give them the land flowing with milk and honey, where you live today.'" Then I, Jeremiah, answered and said, "Let it be so, Yahweh!"
 
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 \v 6 Yahweh said to me, "Proclaim all these things in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Say, 'Listen to the words of this covenant and carry them out.
 \v 7 For I have been giving solemn commands to your ancestors from the day I brought them up from the land of Egypt until this present time, persistently warning them and saying, "Listen to my voice."'
-\v 8 But they did not listen or incline their ear. Each person has been walking in the stubbornness of his wicked heart. So I brought all the curses in this covenant that I commanded to come against them. But the people still did not obey."
+\v 8 But they did not listen or incline their ear. Each person has been walking in the stubbornness of his wicked heart. So I brought all the curses in the covenant that I commanded them to obey, but the people still did not obey."
 
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-\v 14 So you yourself, Jeremiah, must not pray for this people. You must not wail or pray on their behalf. For I will not be listening when they call on me in their disaster.
+\v 14 So you yourself, Jeremiah, must not pray for this people. You must not cry for help or pray on their behalf. For I will not be listening when they call on me in their disaster.
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 \v 15 Why is my beloved one, the one who has had so many wicked intentions, in my house?
 \q The meat of your sacrifices cannot help you. You rejoice because of your evil actions.
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 \v 18 Yahweh made me know these things, so I know them. You, Yahweh, made me see their deeds.
-\v 19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to a butcher. I did not know that they had formed plans against me, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! Let us cut him off from the land of the living so his name will be no longer remembered."
+\v 19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not know that they had formed plans against me, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! Let us cut him off from the land of the living so his name will be no longer remembered."
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 \v 20 Yet Yahweh of hosts is the righteous judge who examines the heart and the mind.
 \q I will witness your vengeance against them, for I have presented my case to you.
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 \v 21 Therefore Yahweh says this concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life, "They say, 'You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will die by our hand.'
 \v 22 Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this, 'See, I am about to punish them. Their vigorous young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.
-\v 23 None of them will be left, because I am bringing disaster against the people of Anathoth, a year of their punishment.'"
+\v 23 No remnant will be left for them, because I am bringing disaster against the people of Anathoth, a year of their punishment.'"
 
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 \v 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, whenever I bring disputes to you.
-\q I must certainly tell you of my reason to complain: Why do the ways of the wicked succeed? All the faithless people are successful.
+\q I must certainly tell you of my reason to complain: Why do the ways of the wicked succeed? All the treacherous are at ease.
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 \v 2 You planted them and they took root. They continue to produce fruit.
 \q You are near to them in their mouths, but far away from their hearts.
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 \v 3 Yet you, Yahweh, know me. You see me and you test my heart toward you.
 \q Take them away like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter!
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-\v 4 How long will the land be parched and the grass in the field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and the birds have been swept away, because the people said, "He will not see what happens to us."
+\v 4 How long will the land mourn and the grass in the field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and the birds have been swept away, because the people said, "He will not see what happens to us."
 
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 \v 5 Yahweh said, "Indeed, if you, Jeremiah, have run with foot soldiers and they have tired you out, how can you compete against horses?
-\q If you fall down in the safe countryside, how will you do in the thickets along the Jordan?
+\q And if you are confident only in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets along the Jordan?
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-\v 6 For even your brothers and your father's family have betrayed you and have loudly denounced you.
+\v 6 For even your brothers and your father's family have betrayed you and have raised their voice against you.
 \q Do not trust in them, even if they say nice things to you.
 
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-\v 10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have stomped all over my portion of land;
+\v 10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trampled on my portion of land;
 \q they turned my delightful portion into a wilderness, a desolation.
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 \v 11 They have made her a desolation. I mourn for her; she is desolate.
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 \v 5 So I went and hid it in Perath, just as Yahweh had commanded me.
 
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-\v 6 After many days, Yahweh said to me, "Get up and go back to Perath. Take from there the undergarment that I had told you to hide."
+\v 6 After many days, Yahweh said to me, "Get up and go back to Perath. Take from there the undergarment that I commanded you to hide."
 \v 7 So I went back to Perath \f + \ft Some transate \fqa Perath \fqa* as \fqa the Euphrates \fqa* . \f* and dug out the undergarment where I had hid it, and behold, it was destroyed and completely useless.
 
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 \q but he will turn it to deep darkness
 \q and change it to deep gloom.
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-\v 17 So if you will not listen, I will weep alone because of your arrogance.
+\v 17 So if you will not listen, I will weep alone because of your pride.
 \q My eyes will certainly weep and flow with tears, for Yahweh's flock has been taken captive.
 
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-\v 18 "Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones,
-\q for your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.'
+\v 18 "Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Humble yourselves! Sit!
+\q For your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.'
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 \v 19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up, with no one to open them. All Judah will be taken captive, completely taken captive.
 
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 \v 20 Lift up your eyes and look at the ones coming from the north.
 \q Where is the flock he gave to you, the flock that was so beautiful to you?
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-\v 21 What will you say when God sets over you those you had trained to be your special allies?
+\v 21 What will you say when God sets over you those whom you yourself had trained to be your special allies?
 \q Are these not the beginnings of the labor pains that will seize you just like a woman in childbirth?
 
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 \v 25 This is what I have given to you, the portion I have decreed for you—this is Yahweh's declaration—
 \q because you have forgotten me and trusted in deceit.
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-\v 26 So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your private parts will be seen.
+\v 26 So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your nakedness will be seen.
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 \v 27 I have seen your adultery and neighing,
 \q the wickedness of your prostitution on the hills and in the fields,
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 \v 1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah regarding the drought,
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-\v 2 "Let Judah mourn; let her gates fall apart. They are wailing for the land;
+\v 2 "Let Judah mourn; let her gates waste away. They are wailing for the land;
 \q their cries for Jerusalem are going up.
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 \v 3 Their mighty ones send out their servants for water.
-\q When they go to the trenches, they cannot find water. They all return unsuccessful;
+\q When they go to the trenches, they cannot find water. They all return with empty vessels;
 \q they cover their heads ashamed and dishonored.
 
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 \q Yahweh is not pleased with them. Now he calls to mind their iniquity and has punished their sins.
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 \v 11 Yahweh said to me, "Do not pray for good on behalf of this people.
-\v 12 For if they fast, I will not listen to their wailing, and if they offer up burnt offerings and food offerings, I will not take pleasure in them. For I will put an end to them by sword, famine, and plague."
+\v 12 For if they fast, I will not listen to their outcry, and if they offer up burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not take pleasure in them. For I will put an end to them by sword, famine, and plague."
 
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-\v 13 Then I said, "Oh, Lord Yahweh! Behold! The prophets are saying to the people, 'You will not see the sword; there will be no famine for you, for I will give you true security in this place.'"
-\v 14 Yahweh said to me, "The prophets prophesy deceit in my name. I did not send them out, nor did I give them any command or speak to them. But deceitful visions and useless, deceitful divination coming from their own minds are what they are prophesying to you."
+\v 13 Then I said, "Oh, Lord Yahweh! Behold! The prophets are saying to the people, 'You will not see the sword; there will be no famine for you, for I will give you true peace in this place.'"
+\v 14 Yahweh said to me, "The prophets prophesy deceit in my name. I did not send them out, nor did I give them any command or speak to them. But deceitful visions and worthless divination and the deceitfulness of their hearts. That is what they are prophesying to you."
 
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 \v 15 Therefore Yahweh says this, "About the prophets prophesying in my name but whom I did not send out—those who say there will be no sword or famine in this land: These prophets will perish by sword and famine.
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 \v 5 For who will have compassion for you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve for you?
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 \v 6 You have forsaken me—this is Yahweh's declaration—you have gone back from me.
-\q So I will strike you with my hand and destroy you. I am tired of having mercy on you.
+\q So I will strike you with my hand and destroy you. I am tired of relenting.
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 \v 7 So I will winnow them with a pitchfork at the gates of the land.
 \q I will bereave them. I will destroy my people since they will not turn from their ways.
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 \v 8 I will make their widows number more than the sands of the seashore. Against the mothers of young men I will send
-\q the destroyer at noonday. I will make shock and horror suddenly fall on them.
+\q the destroyer at noonday. I will make horror and dismay suddenly fall on them.
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 \v 9 The mother who has borne seven children will waste away. She will gasp. Her sun will set while it is still day.
 \q She will be ashamed and embarrassed, for I will give those who remain to the sword in the presence of their enemies—
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-\v 10 Woe to me, my mother! For you have borne me, I who am a man of controversy and argument through all the land.
+\v 10 Woe to me, my mother! For you have borne me, I who am a man of strife and argument through all the land.
 \q I have not lent, nor has anyone lent to me, but they all curse me.
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 \v 11 Yahweh said: "Will I not rescue you for good?
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 \v 17 I did not sit in the circle of those who celebrated or rejoiced.
-\q I sat in solitude because of your powerful hand, for you filled me with indignation.
+\q I sat alone because of your powerful hand, for you filled me with indignation.
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-\v 18 Why is my pain ongoing and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
+\v 18 Why is my pain constant and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
 \q Will you be like deceitful waters to me, waters that dry up?
 
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 \v 20 I will make you like an impenetrable bronze wall to this people, and they will wage war against you.
 \q But they will not defeat you, for I am with you to save and rescue you—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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-\v 21 for I will rescue you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the hand of the tyrant."
+\v 21 for I will rescue you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the hand of the ruthless."
 
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 \v 16 Behold! I will send for many fishermen—this is Yahweh's declaration—so they will fish the people out. After this I will send for many hunters so they will hunt for them among all the mountains and hills, and in rock crevices.
 \v 17 For my eye is on all their ways; they cannot be hidden from before me. Their iniquity cannot be concealed from before my eyes.
-\v 18 I will first pay back double for their iniquity and sin for their polluting of my land with their disgusting idol figures, and for their filling my inheritance with their disgusting idols."
+\v 18 I will first pay back double for their iniquity and sin. They have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the corpses of their detestable idols and their abominations."
 
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 \q because of the sin you committed in all your territories.
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-\v 4 You will lose the inheritance that I gave to you.
+\v 4 You will, by your own actions, let go of the inheritance that I gave to you.
 \q I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know,
 \q for you have ignited a fire in my wrath, which will burn forever."
 
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-\v 12 "The place of our temple is a glorious throne, elevated from the beginning.
+\v 12 "The place of our sanctuary is a glorious throne, elevated from the beginning.
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 \v 13 Yahweh is the hope of Israel. All who abandon you will be put to shame; those in the land who turn away from you will be written in the earth,
 \q for they have forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters.
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 \v 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
 \v 2 "Arise and go out to the potter's house, for I will have you hear my word there."
 \v 3 So I went out to the potter's house, and behold! The potter was working on the potter's wheel.
-\v 4 But the pot he was making from the clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, so he returned the clay and formed it into another pot, and he made that pot an object that was pleasing in his eyes.
+\v 4 But the pot he was making from the clay was ruined in the potter's hand, so he returned the clay and formed it into another pot, and he made that pot an object that was pleasing in his eyes.
 
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 \v 9 At another moment, I may proclaim something about a nation or a kingdom, that I will build it up or plant it.
-\v 10 But if it does evil in my eyes by not listening to my voice, then I will stop the good that I had said I would do for them.
+\v 10 But if it does evil in my eyes by not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had said I would do for them.
 
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 \v 11 So now, speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and say, 'Yahweh says this: See, I am about to form disaster against you. I am about to devise a plan against you. Repent, each person from his wicked way, so your ways and your practices will bring good to you.'
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 \v 16 Their land will become a horror, an object of everlasting hissing.
-\q Everyone who passes by her will shudder and shake his head.
+\q Everyone who passes by her will be astonished and shake his head.
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 \v 17 I will scatter them before their enemies like an eastern wind. I will show them my back, and not my face, on the day of their disaster.'"
 
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 \v 6 Therefore, see, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when this place will no longer be called Topheth, the Valley of Ben Hinnom, for it will be the Valley of Slaughter.
 \v 7 In this place I will make the plans of Judah and Jerusalem useless. I will make them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of the ones seeking their lives. Then I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the heavens and the wild animals of the earth.
-\v 8 Then I will make this city a ruin and the object of hissing, for everyone passing by it will shudder and hiss regarding all of its plagues.
-\v 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; each man will consume the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the anguish brought on them by their enemies and the ones seeking their lives."'
+\v 8 Then I will make this city a ruin and the object of hissing, for everyone passing by it will be astonished and hiss regarding all of its plagues.
+\v 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; each man will consume the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and the ones seeking their lives distress them."'
 
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 \v 4 For Yahweh says this, 'Look, I will make you an object of horror, you and all of your loved ones, for they will fall by the sword of their enemies and your eyes will see it. I will give all of Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He will make them captives in Babylon or attack them with the sword.
 
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-\v 5 I will give him all the wealth of this city and all of its riches, all of its precious items and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. I will place these things in the hand of your enemies, and they will seize them. They will take them and bring them to Babylon.
+\v 5 I will give him all the wealth of this city and all the products of its labor, all of its precious items, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. I will place these things in the hand of your enemies, and they will plunder them. They will seize them and bring them to Babylon.
 \v 6 But you, Pashhur, and all the inhabitants of your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon and die there. You and all of your loved ones to whom you prophesied deceitful things will be buried there.'"
 
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 \q Then Yahweh's word has become for me reproach and mocking every day.
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 \v 9 If I say, 'I will not think about Yahweh anymore. I will not speak any longer in his name.'
-\q Then it is like a fire in my heart, held within my bones. So I struggle to contain it but I cannot.
+\q Then it is like a burning fire in my heart, held within my bones. So I struggle to contain it but I cannot.
 
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 \v 10 I have heard rumors of terror from many people all around. 'Report! We must report it!'
-\q Those who are close to me watch to see if I will fall. 'Perhaps he can be tricked.
+\q Every one of my men of peace watches to see if I will fall. 'Perhaps he can be tricked.
 \q If so, we can overpower him and take our revenge on him.'
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-\v 11 But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior, so the ones pursuing me will stagger.
+\v 11 But Yahweh is with me like a terrifying warrior, so the ones pursuing me will stagger.
 \q They will not defeat me. They will be greatly ashamed, because they will not succeed.
 \q They will have unending shame, it will never be forgotten.
 
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 \v 14 Let the day when I was born be cursed.
 \q Do not let the day that my mother bore me be blessed.
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-\v 15 Let the man who informed my father be cursed,
+\v 15 Let the man who brought the joyful news to my father be cursed,
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 \v 22 Look! All the women who are left in your house, king of Judah, will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. These women will say to you,
-\q 'You have been deceived by your friends; they have ruined you.
+\q 'You have been deceived by your men of peace; they have ruined you.
 \q Your feet are now sunk into the mud, and your friends will run away.'
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