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-\v 1 "I, Yahweh, instructed Moses to write that if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man,
-\q2 her first husband certainly must not take her back again to be his wife,
-\q1 because that would certainly cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me.
+\v 1 "People know that if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man,
+\q2 her first husband certainly must not take her back again to be his wife again.
+\q1 She would be ceremonially unclean and she has broken the law of Yahweh. 
+\q1 This nation is like this woman. 
 \q1 But you have more idols than prostitutes have men whom they have slept with!
-\q2 So, why should I accept you if you return to me?", says Yahweh.
+\q2 So, why should I accept you if you return to me? it is Yahweh who says this. 
 \q1
 \v 2 "Look up at the barren hilltops.
-\q2 On every hilltop there are idols that you have worshiped.
-\q1 It is as though they are all lovers with whom you have slept.
-\q2 It is as though you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting to attack and steal things from those who pass by.
-\q1 Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done,
-\q2 you have caused the entire land to become unacceptable to me.
+\q2 On every hilltop you have given yourselves to the idols 
+\q2 in the way a prostitute gives herself to her lovers.
+\q1 You sat along the roadsides like an Arab nomad who is always waiting in the desert for someone to come; 
+\q2 but you are waiting to have sex with those who pass by.
+\q1 Your unfaithfulness is the worship of idols,  
+\q2 and your prostitution is just like your idol worship.
+\q1 The whole land is made unacceptable to Yahweh, 
+\q2 and your worship of idols is your prostitution and your wickedness is what made you unclean. 
 
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 \q2 You have loved me ever since I was young!
 \q1
 \v 5 So surely you will not be angry with me forever!'
-\q1 But you will not quit sinning!'"
+\q1 You promised you would not obey me, and you did what you said! 
+\q2 And you sinned over and over again! 
+\q1 But you will not quit sinning!"
 
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-\v 11 Then Yahweh said to me, Jeremiah, "The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
+\v 11 Then Yahweh said to me, "Jeremiah, the people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
 \v 12 So go and tell this to the people of Israel,
 \q1 'Yahweh says this to you Israelite people who have turned away from him:
 \q1 I am merciful.