diff --git a/19-PSA.usfm b/19-PSA.usfm
index 4faa5337..b4437e39 100644
--- a/19-PSA.usfm
+++ b/19-PSA.usfm
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 5 Yahweh, you are my chosen portion and my cup. You hold onto my destiny.
+\v 5 Yahweh, you are my chosen portion and my cup. You hold onto my lot.
 \q
 \v 6 Measuring lines have been laid for me in pleasant places; surely a pleasing inheritance is mine.
 
diff --git a/23-ISA.usfm b/23-ISA.usfm
index e39f4c22..11559f95 100644
--- a/23-ISA.usfm
+++ b/23-ISA.usfm
@@ -5142,7 +5142,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter,
+\v 12 I will appoint you for the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter,
 \q1 because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen.
 \q1 But you did what was evil in my sight and and chose to do what displeases me."
 
diff --git a/38-ZEC.usfm b/38-ZEC.usfm
index 8d28ade2..a22cff77 100644
--- a/38-ZEC.usfm
+++ b/38-ZEC.usfm
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
 \v 6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land!—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! I myself am about to turn over every person into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king, and they will destroy the land and none of them will I deliver them from their hand."
 
 \s5
-\v 7 So I became the shepherd of the flock destined for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called "Favor" and the other I called "Unity." In this way I shepherded the flock.
+\v 7 So I became the shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called "Favor" and the other I called "Unity." In this way I shepherded the flock.
 \v 8 In one month I destroyed the three shepherds, for I ran out of patience with them, and they hated me as well.
 \v 9 Then I said to the owners, "I will not work as a shepherd for you any longer. The sheep that are dying—let them die; the sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain each eat the flesh of its neighbor."
 
diff --git a/61-1PE.usfm b/61-1PE.usfm
index f88c1199..459415cb 100644
--- a/61-1PE.usfm
+++ b/61-1PE.usfm
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 \v 8 and,
 \q "A stone of stumbling
 \q and a rock that makes them fall."
-\m They stumble because they disobey the word—which is what they were destined to do.
+\m They stumble because they disobey the word—which is what they were appointed to do.
 
 \s5
 \v 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you would announce the wonderful actions of the one who called you out from darkness into his marvelous light.