diff --git a/04-NUM/01.usfm b/04-NUM/01.usfm index a98de779..9b0b2231 100644 --- a/04-NUM/01.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/01.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \li1 Pagiel son of Ocran, from the tribe of Asher; \li1 Eliasaph son of Deuel, from the tribe of Gad; \li1 Ahira son of Enan, from the tribe of Naphtali." -\b \s5 \p @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \v 17 Aaron and Moses summoned all these leaders, \v 18 and they gathered all of the people on that same day. They listed the names of all the men who were at least 20 years old, and with their names they wrote the names of their clans and their family groups \v 19 just as Moses had commanded. They wrote the names while the Israelites were there in the wilderness of Sinai. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -90,7 +88,6 @@ \s5 \li1 \v 42-43 There were 53,400 men from the tribe of Naphtali who were at least twenty years old and were able to fight in battles. They were listed by their names, their clans, and their family groups. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/04-NUM/02.usfm b/04-NUM/02.usfm index 7ed07d45..65a53470 100644 --- a/04-NUM/02.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/02.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ \p \v 1 Then Yahweh said this to Aaron and Moses, \v 2 "When the Israelites set up their tents, they are to set them up in areas that surround the sacred tent, but not close to it. The people of each tribe must set up their tents in a different area. Each tribe must put up a flag in that area that identifies their tribe. -\b \s5 \li @@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 9 So there will be 186,400 troops on the east side of the sacred tent. Whenever the Israelites move to a new location, those three tribes must go in front of the others. -\b \s5 \li @@ -40,12 +38,10 @@ \s5 \p \v 16 So there will be 151,450 troops on the south side of the sacred tent. Those three tribes will follow the first group when the Israelites travel. -\b \s5 \p \v 17 Behind that group will walk the descendants of Levi, who will carry the sacred tent. The Israelites will march in the same order that they always set up their tents. Each tribe will carry its own flag. -\b \s5 \li @@ -62,7 +58,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 24 So there will be 108,100 troops on the west side of the sacred tent. Those three tribes will follow the second group, behind the descendants of Levi. -\b \s5 \li @@ -79,13 +74,11 @@ \s5 \p \v 31 So there will be 157,600 troops on the north side of the sacred tent. Those three tribes will be last. They must carry their own flags when the Israelites travel." -\b \s5 \p \v 32 So there were 603,550 Israelite men who were able to fight who were listed according to their families' ancestors. \v 33 But just as Yahweh had commanded, the names of the descendants of Levi were not included. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/04-NUM/03.usfm b/04-NUM/03.usfm index 945c9c78..d27d38d3 100644 --- a/04-NUM/03.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/03.usfm @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ \li1 \v 20 Merari had two sons, Mahli and Mushi. The clans who were descended from them had the same names as those two sons. \li1 Those are the clans who were descended from Levi. -\b \s5 \p @@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ \v 38 Aaron and Moses and Aaron's sons were told to set up their tents in the area in front of the sacred tent, on the east side. Their work was to supervise the work that would be done in and around the sacred tent, for the benefit of the Israelite people. Only the priests were permitted to do that. Yahweh declared that anyone else who went near the tent to do the work that the priests do must be executed. \p \v 39 When Aaron and Moses counted all the males who were at least one month old, who belonged to the clans descended from Levi, the total was twenty-two thousand. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/04-NUM/23.usfm b/04-NUM/23.usfm index 1cf0ede7..c09f0598 100644 --- a/04-NUM/23.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/23.usfm @@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 He commanded me to request him to bless the Israelites, \q2 So he has blessed them, and I cannot change that. -\b \q1 \s5 diff --git a/04-NUM/24.usfm b/04-NUM/24.usfm index f2d60f78..906b9a9c 100644 --- a/04-NUM/24.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/24.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ \v 4 I hear this message from God. \q2 I see a vision from the one who is all-powerful. \q2 My eyes are open as I prostrate myself in front of him. -\b \q1 \v 5 You descendants of Jacob, your tents are very beautiful! \q2 The places where you live are lovely! @@ -32,10 +31,8 @@ \s5 \v 7 Your water buckets will always be full. \q2 The seeds that you plant will always have plenty of water to make them grow. -\b \q1 The Israelites' king will be greater than King Agag. \q2 The kingdom that he rules will be honored. -\b \q1 \s5 @@ -52,7 +49,6 @@ \q2 No one would dare to arouse them! \p God will bless everyone who blesses you Israelites, \q1 and he will curse everyone who curses you." -\b \s5 \p @@ -76,7 +72,6 @@ \q2 I know things that God, who lives in heaven, has revealed to me. \q1 I see a vision from the one who is all-powerful. \q2 My eyes are open as I prostrate myself in front of him. -\b \q1 \s5 diff --git a/04-NUM/26.usfm b/04-NUM/26.usfm index 728671df..795764e8 100644 --- a/04-NUM/26.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/26.usfm @@ -153,7 +153,6 @@ \s5 \pi \v 51 The total of the Israelite men whom the leaders counted was 601,730. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/05-DEU/27.usfm b/05-DEU/27.usfm index d5617b9a..fc8326cd 100644 --- a/05-DEU/27.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/27.usfm @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ \v 13 And the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali must stand on Mount Ebal and listen to the things that Yahweh will do when he curses the people. \p \v 14 The descendants of Levi must shout these words loudly: -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/05-DEU/32.usfm b/05-DEU/32.usfm index d0866f6c..ed3c575c 100644 --- a/05-DEU/32.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/32.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q everything that he does is perfect and completely just. \q He always does what he says that he will do; \q he never does anything that is wrong. -\b \s5 \q @@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ \q is this the way that you should repay Yahweh for all that he has done for you? \q He is your father; he created you; \q he caused you to become a nation. -\b \s5 \q @@ -50,7 +48,6 @@ \q \v 9 But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; \q he chose us, the descendants of Jacob, to belong to him. -\b \q \v 10 He saw our ancestors when they were in a desert, \q wandering in a land that was desolate. @@ -65,7 +62,6 @@ \q \v 12 Yahweh was the only one who led them; \q no other foreign god helped them. -\b \s5 \q @@ -81,7 +77,6 @@ \q they had well fed sheep and cattle, \q they had very good wheat, \q and they made delicious wine from their grapes. -\b \s5 \q @@ -103,7 +98,6 @@ \q \v 18 They forgot the true God, the one who protects them, \q the one who created them and caused them to live. -\b \s5 \q @@ -155,7 +149,6 @@ \q that they were the ones who had gotten rid of my people; \q they would say, "We are the ones who defeated them; \q it was not Yahweh who has done all these things."' -\b \s5 \q @@ -183,7 +176,6 @@ \s5 \v 33 The wine from those grapes is like the poison of snakes. -\b \q \v 34 Yahweh says, 'I know what I have planned to do to the Israelite people and to their enemies, \q and I have locked up those plans as someone would lock up his valuable possessions. @@ -194,7 +186,6 @@ \q at the right time for them to be punished; \q they will soon experience disasters, \q and I will punish them quickly.' -\b \s5 \q @@ -212,7 +203,6 @@ \q and you poured out wine for them to drink. \q So they should rise and help you; \q they should be the ones who will protect you! -\b \s5 \q @@ -238,7 +228,6 @@ \q it will be as though I had arrows that were covered with their blood. \q I will kill all those whom I capture \q and cut off their heads.' -\b \s5 \q @@ -246,7 +235,6 @@ \q because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him, \q and he cleanses his people's land \q which has become defiled because of their sins." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/05-DEU/33.usfm b/05-DEU/33.usfm index 07082ba6..63ff4e35 100644 --- a/05-DEU/33.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/33.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ \p \v 1 Before God's prophet Moses died, he asked God to bless the Israelite people. \v 2 This is what he said: -\b \q "Yahweh came and spoke to us at Mount Sinai; \q he came like the sun rises in the region of Edom \q and like his light shone on us when we were in the desert near Mount Paran after we left Mount Sinai. @@ -27,12 +26,10 @@ \q \v 5 So Yahweh became the king of his Israelite people \q when all the tribes and their leaders had gathered together. -\b \p \v 6 I say this about the tribe of Reuben: \q I desire that their tribe will never disappear, \q but that they will never become numerous. -\b \s5 \p @@ -67,7 +64,6 @@ \q and accept all that they do. \q Crush all their enemies; \q do not enable their enemies to be able to fight against them again. -\b \s5 \p @@ -76,7 +72,6 @@ \q he keeps them safe. \q He protects them continually, \q and he lives among their hills. -\b \s5 \p @@ -106,7 +101,6 @@ \q all of them, to the most distant places on the earth. \q That is what the descendants of the two sons of Joseph will do, \q the ten thousands of the tribe of Ephraim and the thousands of the tribe of Manasseh. -\b \s5 \p @@ -118,7 +112,6 @@ \q and they will offer correct sacrifices to him. \q They will become rich from the trade that they carry out on the seas \q and from using the sand along the sea to make things. -\b \s5 \p @@ -134,21 +127,18 @@ \q When the leaders of the tribes of Israel gathered together, \q they decided that the tribe of Gad should have a large share of the land. \q The tribe of Gad obeyed the commands of Yahweh and the things that he decided that they should do. -\b \s5 \p \v 22 I say this about the tribe of Dan: \q The people of the tribe of Dan are like a young lion; \q they leap out from their caves in the region of Bashan to attack their enemies. -\b \s5 \p \v 23 I say this about the tribe of Naphtali: \q The people of the tribe of Naphtali have been blessed by Yahweh, who has been very kind to them; \q their land extends far south from Lake Galilee. -\b \s5 \p @@ -159,7 +149,6 @@ \q \v 25 Their towns will be protected by high walls with gates that have bronze and iron bars; \q I desire all the time that they live and not be harmed by anyone. -\b \s5 \q diff --git a/07-JDG/05.usfm b/07-JDG/05.usfm index 8512d480..d14d0910 100644 --- a/07-JDG/05.usfm +++ b/07-JDG/05.usfm @@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ \q2 I will sing to Yahweh. With this song I will praise Yahweh, the God of Israel. \q1 \v 4 O Yahweh, when you came from Seir, when you marched from that land, also known as Edom, -\b \q2 the earth shook, \q2 and rain poured down from the skies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -44,7 +42,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 I am thankful for the leaders and soldiers who volunteered to fight. \q2 I praise you, Yahweh, for them! -\b \q1 \v 10 You wealthy people who ride on donkeys, \q2 sitting on nice padded saddles, @@ -56,7 +53,6 @@ \v 11 Listen to the voices of the singers who gather at the places where the animals drink water. \q2 They tell about how Yahweh acted righteously \q2 when he enabled the Israelite warriors to conquer their enemies. -\b \q1 Yahweh's people marched down to the city gates. \s5 @@ -65,7 +61,6 @@ \q2 'Deborah, wake up! Wake up and start singing!' \q1 They also shouted, \q2 'Barak (son of Abinoam), get up, and capture our enemies!' -\b \q1 \v 13 Later, some of the Israelite people who survived the battle \q1 came down from the highlands to where their leaders were. @@ -103,7 +98,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 But men from the tribe descended from Zebulun risked their lives on the battlefield, \q2 and men descended from Naphtali were ready to do that, also. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -129,7 +123,6 @@ \q2 'I curse the people of the town of Meroz \q1 because they did not come to help Yahweh \q2 to defeat the mighty warriors of Canaan.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -152,7 +145,6 @@ \q2 and he fell and he layed there and did not move. \q1 At her feet he sank down, \q2 and there he fell limp. He was dead. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -170,7 +162,6 @@ \q2 Each soldier will get one or two women who will bear them children. \q2 Sisera will get some beautiful robes, \q2 and some beautiful embroidered robes for me.' -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/09-1SA/02.usfm b/09-1SA/02.usfm index 0016066b..1775aceb 100644 --- a/09-1SA/02.usfm +++ b/09-1SA/02.usfm @@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ \q2 I am strong because I belong to you. \q1 I laugh at my enemies \q2 because you, Yahweh has rescued me from being mocked by them. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 2 There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. \q2 There is no other god like you. \q2 The is no one like you, our God, who can protect us as though you were putting us on top of a huge rock where we can be safe from danger. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -23,7 +21,6 @@ \q2 Yahweh is a God who knows everything, \q1 and he will evaluate everyone's actions. \q2 So do not speak so arrogantly! -\b \q1 \v 4 Yahweh, you break the bows of mighty soldiers, \q2 but you give strength to those who stumble because they are weak. diff --git a/10-2SA/01.usfm b/10-2SA/01.usfm index ceba2a7b..1e91b1fd 100644 --- a/10-2SA/01.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/01.usfm @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 "You Israelite people, your glorious leaders have been killed on the mountains! \q2 It is very sad that these mighty men have died! -\b \q1 \v 20 Do not tell it to our enemies in the region of Philistia. \q1 Do not tell the people who live in the city of Gath. @@ -63,19 +62,16 @@ \q1 \v 22 Jonathan's arrows were his servants who always pierced his enemies and drew their blood. \q2 and Saul's sword was his servant who always struck his enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 23 Saul and Jonathan were loved; they pleased many people. \q2 They were together while they lived and when they died. \q1 In battle they were swifter than eagles and stronger than lions. -\b \q1 \v 24 You women in Israel, weep about Saul. \q1 He provided beautiful scarlet clothes for you \q2 and gave you gold ornaments to put on. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -86,7 +82,6 @@ \q2 You were very dear to me. \q1 You loved me in a wonderful manner. \q2 It was even better than the way that a woman loves her husband and her children. -\b \q1 \v 27 It is very sad that these mighty men have died, \q2 and that their weapons are now no more! diff --git a/10-2SA/05.usfm b/10-2SA/05.usfm index db44247c..21d839fc 100644 --- a/10-2SA/05.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/05.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \p \v 9 After David and his soldiers captured the city with its strong walls around it, he lived there, and they named it the city of David. David and his soldiers built the city around the fortress, starting where the land was filled in on the east side of the hill. \v 10 David continued to become more and more powerful because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, was helping him. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/10-2SA/22.usfm b/10-2SA/22.usfm index e36acf0b..d44e4ae1 100644 --- a/10-2SA/22.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/22.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ \v 4 I call out to you, Yahweh. \q2 You deserve to be praised, \q2 and you rescue me from my enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ \q2 I cried out to you, my God. \q1 You heard me from your temple. \q2 You listened when I called to you to help me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -73,7 +71,6 @@ \q2 The foundations of the world could be seen \q1 when you shouted, going into battle against our enemies \q2 and angry at them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -91,7 +88,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 You brought me into a place where I was safe. \q2 You rescued me because you were pleased with me. -\b \q1 \v 21 Yahweh, you rewarded me because I do what is right. \q2 You did good things for me because I was innocent. @@ -111,7 +107,6 @@ \q1 \v 25 So you have rewarded me in return for my doing what is right, \q2 because you know that I am innocent of doing wrong things. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -133,7 +128,6 @@ \q1 \v 30 With your strength I can break through a line of soldiers blocking my way; \q2 I can climb over the wall that surrounds their city. -\b \q1 \v 31 My God whom I worship, everything that you do is perfect. \q2 You always do what you promise that you will do. @@ -164,7 +158,6 @@ \q1 \v 37 You have not allowed my enemies to capture me, \q2 and I have not fallen down during battle. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -189,7 +182,6 @@ \q1 \v 43 I crushed them, and they became like tiny particles of dust. \q2 I trampled them, and they became like mud in the streets. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -202,7 +194,6 @@ \q1 \v 46 They became afraid, \q2 and they came to me, trembling, from the places where they were hiding. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/10-2SA/23.usfm b/10-2SA/23.usfm index af443b66..f0237d5a 100644 --- a/10-2SA/23.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/23.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \q1 The God whom Jacob worshiped made him king of Israel. \q1 David wrote beautiful songs for the people of Israel. \q1 This is the last song that he wrote: -\b \q1 \v 2 "The Spirit of Yahweh tells me what to say. \q1 The message that I speak comes from him. @@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 They are like the sun that shines at dawn \q2 and causes the grass to sprout after the rain ends.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -84,7 +82,6 @@ \s5 \v 22 Those are some of the things that Benaiah did. As a result, he became famous, like the three greatest warriors were. \v 23 He was more honored than the other greatest soldiers, but not as famous as the three greatest. David appointed him to be the commander of his bodyguards. -\b \s5 \li2 diff --git a/11-1KI/04.usfm b/11-1KI/04.usfm index c274adb1..3ca8c43c 100644 --- a/11-1KI/04.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/04.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ \p \v 1 Now when Solomon was king over all Israel, \v 2 these were his most important officials: -\b \li1 Azariah, whose father was Zadok, was the priest. \li1 \v 3 Shisha's sons Elihoreph and Ahijah were the official secretaries. @@ -22,13 +21,11 @@ \li1 \v 6 Ahishar supervised the servants who worked in the palace. \li1 Abda's son Adoniram supervised the men who were forced to do work for the king. -\b \s5 \p \v 7 Solomon appointed twelve men to govern the districts in Israel. They also were required to provide food for the king and all the others who lived and worked in the palace. Each man was required to provide from his own district the food for one month in each year. \v 8 Their names were: -\b \li1 Ben Hur, for the hill area of the tribe of Ephraim. \li1 \v 9 Ben Deker, for the cities of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Bethhanan, diff --git a/11-1KI/07.usfm b/11-1KI/07.usfm index a0353c07..ea6b46cb 100644 --- a/11-1KI/07.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/07.usfm @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ \li1 the twelve statues of oxen on whose backs the tank was placed, \li \v 45 the pots, shovels for the ashes of the altar, and bowls. -\b \p Huram and his workers made all these things for King Solomon and put them outside the temple. They were all made of bronze that the workmen polished for it to gleam brightly. \s5 @@ -119,7 +118,6 @@ \v 46 They made them by pouring melted bronze into the clay molds that Huram had set up near the Jordan River valley, between the cities of Succoth and Zarethan. \p \v 47 Solomon did not tell his workers to weigh those bronze objects, because there were many items. So no one ever knew what they weighed. -\b \s5 \p @@ -136,7 +134,6 @@ \s5 \v 50 the cups, the gold lamp wick snuffers, the small lamp bowls, the dishes for incense, the pans for carrying the hot coals, and the sockets for the doors at the entrance to the very holy place and for the doors at the entrance to the main room of the temple. \li1 Those things were all made of gold. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/11-1KI/08.usfm b/11-1KI/08.usfm index 722cef10..48e05b8e 100644 --- a/11-1KI/08.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/08.usfm @@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ \pi \v 52 I request that you always listen to your Israelite people and to their king, and heed their prayers whenever they call out to you to help them. \v 53 You chose them from all the other people groups in the world to belong to you, which is what you told Moses to tell them when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/11-1KI/11.usfm b/11-1KI/11.usfm index 78a5ba2c..bfa9a0f1 100644 --- a/11-1KI/11.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/11.usfm @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 20 Later Hadad's wife gave birth to a son named Genubath. The sister of Tahpenes raised him in the palace, where he lived with the king's sons. -\b \p \v 21 While Hadad was in Egypt, he heard that David had died, and that Joab, the commander of David's army, was also dead. So he said to the king of Egypt, "Please allow me to return to my own country." \p diff --git a/12-2KI/19.usfm b/12-2KI/19.usfm index b1df580f..e9c6c6f7 100644 --- a/12-2KI/19.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/19.usfm @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ \q2 and drunk water from them. \q And by marching through the streams of Egypt, \q2 we dried them all up!' -\b \s5 \q @@ -95,7 +94,6 @@ \q They are as frail as plants and grass in the fields, \q2 as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses \q3 and is scorched before it can grow tall. -\b \s5 \q @@ -153,7 +151,6 @@ \q2 I will do this for the sake of my own reputation \q2 and because of what I promised to King David, \q3 who served me well.'" -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/13-1CH/01.usfm b/13-1CH/01.usfm index 380694e6..77fe7e24 100644 --- a/13-1CH/01.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/01.usfm @@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ \s5 \v 51 Then Hadad died. -\b \li1 The leaders of the clans of the Edom people group were Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, \v 52 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, \v 53 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, diff --git a/13-1CH/02.usfm b/13-1CH/02.usfm index 80f3d0a1..555aa35c 100644 --- a/13-1CH/02.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/02.usfm @@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ \li1 \v 33 Jonathan's sons were Peleth and Zaza. \li1 Those were the descendants of Jerahmeel. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -133,7 +132,6 @@ \li1 \v 48 Caleb had another slave wife whose name was Maacah. Caleb and Maacah's sons were Sheber, Tirhanah, \v 49 Shaaph, and Sheva. Shaaph was the father of Madmannah. Sheva was the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Acsah. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/04.usfm b/13-1CH/04.usfm index 29472590..f93f1b53 100644 --- a/13-1CH/04.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/04.usfm @@ -21,13 +21,11 @@ \li1 \v 7 The sons of Ashhur and his wife Helah were Zereth, Izhar, Ethnan, \v 8 and Koz. Koz was the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the ancestor of the clans descended from Aharhel. Aharhel was the son of Harum. -\b \s5 \p \v 9 There was another descendant of Judah whose name was Jabez. He was more respected than his brothers were. His mother named him Jabez which means 'pain' because she said, "I was enduring much pain when I gave birth to him." \v 10 One day he prayed to God whom his fellow Israelites worshiped, saying, "Please greatly bless me and increase my land. Remain with me, and do not allow anyone to harm me. If you do that for me, I will not have any pain." And God did what Jabez requested him to do. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/06.usfm b/13-1CH/06.usfm index 64b81ef7..36d97039 100644 --- a/13-1CH/06.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/06.usfm @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ \v 14 Azariah was the father of Seraiah. \li2 Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak. \v 15 Jehozadak was forced to leave his home when Yahweh sent King Nebuchadnezzar's army to capture many people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah and compel them to go to Babylonia. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ \s5 \li1 \v 19 Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. -\b \m Here is a list of the descendants of Levi, who became leaders of their clans. \li1 \v 20 Gershon's oldest son was Libni. @@ -75,7 +73,6 @@ \li2 Joah's son was Iddo. \li2 Iddo's son was Zerah. \li2 Zerah's son was Jeatherai. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -157,7 +154,6 @@ \li2 Izhar was the son of Kohath. \li2 Kohath was the son of Levi. \li2 Levi was the son of Jacob. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -180,7 +176,6 @@ \v 43 Shimei was the son of Jahath. \li2 Jahath was the son of Gershon, \li2 and Gershon was the son of Levi. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -200,7 +195,6 @@ \li2 Mahli was the son of Mushi. \li2 Mushi was the son of Merari, \li2 and Merari was the son of Levi. -\b \s5 \p @@ -270,7 +264,6 @@ \s5 \pi \v 70 The other descendants of Kohath were allotted the cities of Aner and Bileam and the nearby pastureland from the part of the tribe of Manasseh that lives west of the Jordan River. -\b \s5 \p @@ -285,7 +278,6 @@ \v 75 Hukok, and Rehob. \li2 \v 76 From the tribe of Naphtali they were allotted cities and towns and pastureland near Kedesh in the region of Galilee, and the cities of Hammon and Kiriathaim. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/08.usfm b/13-1CH/08.usfm index e9dcd6b3..41bb116c 100644 --- a/13-1CH/08.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/08.usfm @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel. \v 26-27 Another descendant of Benjamin was Jeroham, whose sons were Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zicri. \p \v 28 In the records of these clans it is written that all those men were leaders of their clans, and they lived in Jerusalem. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ Iphdeiah, and Penuel. \li1 Eshek's oldest son was Ulam. His other sons were Jeush and Eliphelet. \li2 \v 40 Ulam's sons were brave warriors and good archers. Altogether they had 150 sons and grandsons. -\b \m All these were the descendants of Benjamin. diff --git a/13-1CH/09.usfm b/13-1CH/09.usfm index 1f8d0a11..84a77ccb 100644 --- a/13-1CH/09.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/09.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ \v 8 Ibneiah son of Jeroham; \li1 Elah son of Uzzi; Uzzi son of Micri; \li1 Meshullam son of Shephatiah; Shephatiah son of Reuel; Reuel son of Ibnijah. -\b \li1 \v 9 In other records of the people descended from Benjamin, there are the names of 956 people who were living in Jerusalem. All these were leaders of their clans. @@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ \li2 Galal son of Jeduthun; \li1 There was also Berekiah son of Asa; \li2 Asa son of Elkanah, who lived in one of the villages where the Netophath people lived. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/11.usfm b/13-1CH/11.usfm index a5cdc065..67914f40 100644 --- a/13-1CH/11.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/11.usfm @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ \s5 \v 24 Those are some of the things that Benaiah did. So he became as famous as the three greatest warriors. \v 25 He was more honored that the other members of the group of thirty great warriors, but he did not become a member of the group of three most outstanding warriors. David appointed him to be the leader of his bodyguards. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/16.usfm b/13-1CH/16.usfm index bfd5f9e7..cec42394 100644 --- a/13-1CH/16.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/16.usfm @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 We people are the descendants of his servant Jacob; \q2 we are the people of Israel whom he has chosen. -\b \q1 \v 14 Yahweh is our God. \q2 His just laws are known by people throughout the world. @@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 What he said was, "I will give the region of Canaan to you, \q2 to belong to you and your descendants forever." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -72,7 +70,6 @@ \q1 \v 22 "Do not harm the people whom I have chosen! \q2 Do not harm my prophets!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -92,7 +89,6 @@ \q1 \v 27 He is glorious and majestic; \q2 he is very powerful and joyful in his temple. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -116,7 +112,6 @@ \q1 \v 33 When they do that, it will be as though the trees in the forest will sing joyfully in front of Yahweh. \q2 That will happen when he comes to judge everyone on the earth. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/13-1CH/23.usfm b/13-1CH/23.usfm index f98115a7..4281072c 100644 --- a/13-1CH/23.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/23.usfm @@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ \v 22 Eleazar had no sons; he had only daughters. So their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them. \li1 \v 23 The three sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/13-1CH/24.usfm b/13-1CH/24.usfm index 21e24edc..f86572b3 100644 --- a/13-1CH/24.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/24.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 6 Shemaiah son of Nethanel, who was a descendant of Levi, wrote down the names of the leaders of each group while David and his officials were watching. Zadok, the high priest, and Ahimelech his assistant, and the leaders of the families of the priests and of the families of the other descendants of Levi also watched. -\b \s5 \li1 @@ -99,7 +98,6 @@ \v 29 From the descendants of Kish there was his son Jerahmeel. \li2 \v 30 The sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. -\b \p Those were descendants of Levi who were listed according to the leaders of their families. \v 31 The jobs they would do were decided by casting lots like their fellow Israelites the descendants of Aaron, did. They cast lots while King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the leaders of he families of the priests and the other descendants of Levi watched. The jobs that were given to the families of each oldest brother and each youngest brother were equal. diff --git a/13-1CH/25.usfm b/13-1CH/25.usfm index 33406dc8..e11c447a 100644 --- a/13-1CH/25.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/25.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \v 6 All those men were supervised by their fathers while they played music in the temple of Yahweh. They played cymbals, lyres, and harps. And their fathers–Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman–were supervised by the king. \v 7 Those men and their relatives were all trained and skilled for playing musical instruments in the temple. That was their work for Yahweh. Including their relatives, there were 288 of them. \v 8 All of them, including ones who were young and those who were old, cast lots to determine what work they would do. -\b \s5 \li1 diff --git a/13-1CH/27.usfm b/13-1CH/27.usfm index a0569a6e..f7b4069c 100644 --- a/13-1CH/27.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/27.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \p \v 1 This is a list of the Israelite men who served the king in the army. Some were leaders of families, some were commanders of one hundred men, some were commanders of one thousand men, and some were other officers. There were twenty-four thousand men in each group. Each group served one month of each year. -\b \li1 \v 2 Jashobeam, son of Zabdiel, was in charge of the group that served during the first month of each year. \v 3 He was a descendant of Perez, and he was the commander of all the army officers during the first month of each year. @@ -45,7 +44,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 16 This is a list of the administrators of the twelve tribes of Israel: -\b \li1 Eliezer, son of Zicri, was the administrator of the tribe of Reuben. \li1 Shephatiah, son of Maacah, was the administrator of the tribe of Simeon. \li1 diff --git a/14-2CH/04.usfm b/14-2CH/04.usfm index 6c5ee43b..d8519076 100644 --- a/14-2CH/04.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/04.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 11 They also made pots and shovels for the ashes of the altar, and other small bowls. -\b \p So Huram and his workers finished the work that King Solomon had given him to do at the temple of God. \v 12 These were the things that they made: \li1 the two large pillars diff --git a/14-2CH/07.usfm b/14-2CH/07.usfm index d10f00f9..9f5e87b3 100644 --- a/14-2CH/07.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/07.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ \p \v 11 In this way, Solomon's workers finished building the temple and Solomon's palace. And Solomon finished doing everything else that he had planned to do. \v 12 Then Yahweh appeared to him one night in a dream and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this temple to be the place where my people will offer sacrifices to me. -\b \s5 \pi diff --git a/14-2CH/17.usfm b/14-2CH/17.usfm index b3922a1f..76211e50 100644 --- a/14-2CH/17.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/17.usfm @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ \s5 \v 14 The leaders and numbers from each tribe were as follows: -\b \li1 From the tribe of Judah, Adnah was the leader of the soldiers, and he commanded 300,000 soldiers. \li1 \v 15 His assistant was Jehohanan, who commanded 280,000 soldiers. diff --git a/14-2CH/30.usfm b/14-2CH/30.usfm index c169953e..5a9d0188 100644 --- a/14-2CH/30.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/30.usfm @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 6 Obeying what the king commanded, messengers went throughout Judah and Israel, taking messages that had been written by the king and his officials. This is what they wrote: -\b \li "You Israelite people, you who survived after being slaves of the kings of Assyria, return to Yahweh, the God whom our great ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshiped, in order that he may return to you. Your fathers and your fellow countrymen did not faithfully obey Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors worshiped. \s5 diff --git a/16-NEH/07.usfm b/16-NEH/07.usfm index 6bb88f2a..0191a0f3 100644 --- a/16-NEH/07.usfm +++ b/16-NEH/07.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ \p \v 6 "This is a list of the people who returned to Jerusalem and to other places in Judea. They had been living in Babylonia. Nebuchadnezzar had taken them there. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah. Each one who returned went back to his own city where his ancestors had lived before the exile. \v 7 They came back with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. -\b \p The number of men from the people who returned to Judah are listed next. \s5 @@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ \v 24 from the descendants of Hariph, whose other name is Jorah, 112, \li2 \v 25 from the descendants of Gibeon, whose other name is Gibbar, ninety-five. -\b \pi \v 26 Men whose ancestors had lived in these towns also returned: \li2 Men from Bethlehem and Netophah, 188. @@ -98,7 +96,6 @@ \v 37 men from Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721, \li2 \v 38 men from Senaah, 3,930. -\b \pi These priests also returned: \s5 @@ -110,7 +107,6 @@ \v 41 the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247, \li2 \v 42 the descendants of Harim, 1,017. -\b \s5 \pi @@ -118,10 +114,8 @@ \li2 the descendants of Jeshua, Kadmiel, Binnui, and Hodeva, seventy-four, \li2 \v 44 singers who were descendants of Asaph, 148. -\b \pi \v 45 Also 138 temple gatekeepers from the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, returned. -\b \s5 \pi @@ -151,7 +145,6 @@ \v 55 Barkos, Sisera, Temah, \li2 \v 56 Neziah, and Hatipha. -\b \s5 \pi @@ -161,22 +154,18 @@ \v 58 Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel, \li2 \v 59 the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon. -\b \pi \v 60 Altogether, there were 392 temple workers and descendants of Solomon's servants who returned. -\b \s5 \pi \v 61-62 Another group of 642 people from the clans of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda returned from the towns of Telmelah, Telharsha, Kerub, Addan, also known as Addon, and Immer in Babylonia. But they could not prove that they were descendants of Israel. -\b \pi \v 63 Priests from the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai also returned. Barzillai had married a woman who is a descendant of a man named Barzillai from the region of Gilead, and he had taken his wife's family name. \s5 \v 64 They searched in the records that contained the names of people's ancestors, but they could not find the names of those families, so they were not allowed to have the rights and duties that priests had. They did not qualify to be priests because they could not trace their family history. \v 65 The governor told them they should not be allowed to eat the priests' share of the food, taken from the sacrifices, and they should come who could use the marked stones to find what God said about their being priests once more. -\b \s5 \pi @@ -186,7 +175,6 @@ \s5 \v 68 The Israelites also brought back from Babylonia 736 horses, 245 mules, \v 69 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys. -\b \s5 \pi diff --git a/16-NEH/10.usfm b/16-NEH/10.usfm index bd36cc9a..67173346 100644 --- a/16-NEH/10.usfm +++ b/16-NEH/10.usfm @@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ \c 10 \p \v 1 This is a list of those who signed the agreement: -\b \li1 I, Nehemiah son of Hacaliah, the governor and also Zedekiah. -\b \m \v 2 The priests who signed it were: \li1 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, @@ -24,7 +22,6 @@ \v 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, \li1 \v 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. -\b \s5 \m @@ -38,7 +35,6 @@ \v 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, \li1 \v 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. -\b \m \v 14 The Israelite leaders who signed it were: \li1 Parosh, Pahath Moab, Elam, Zattu, and Bani. diff --git a/16-NEH/11.usfm b/16-NEH/11.usfm index 1ce9368e..909b4795 100644 --- a/16-NEH/11.usfm +++ b/16-NEH/11.usfm @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari \p \v 5 And there was Maaseiah the son of Baruch, who was the son of Colhozeh, who was the son of Hazaiah, who was the son of Adaiah, who was the son of Joiarib, who was the son of Zechariah, who was a descendant of Judah's son Shelah. \v 6 There were 468 men who were descendants of Perez. -\b \s5 \m @@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari \v 8 Two of Sallu's relatives, Gabbai and Sallai, also settled in Jerusalem. \p Altogether, 928 people from the tribe of Benjamin settled in Jerusalem. \v 9 Their leader was Zichri. The official who was second in command in Jerusalem was Hassenuah. -\b \s5 \m @@ -40,7 +38,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari \v 13 Altogether, there were 242 members of that clan who were leaders of the clan who settled in Jerusalem. \p Another priest who settled in Jerusalem was Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer. \v 14 There were 128 members of that clan who were valiant soldiers who settled in Jerusalem. Their leader was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim. -\b \s5 \m @@ -55,7 +52,6 @@ These are from the relatives of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechari \s5 \m \v 19 The gatekeepers who settled in Jerusalem were Akkub and Talmon. Altogether, there were 172 of them and their relatives who settled in Jerusalem. -\b \p \v 20 The other Israelite people including descendants of Levi and priests lived on their own property in other towns and cities in Judea. \p diff --git a/18-JOB/03.usfm b/18-JOB/03.usfm index 32eaa3d6..69b34994 100644 --- a/18-JOB/03.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/03.usfm @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 That was an evil day because my mother's womb was not closed; \q2 instead, I was born, and I have now experienced all these terrible things. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +76,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 Rich people and poor people are alike after they die, \q2 and those who were slaves no longer have to obey their masters. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/04.usfm b/18-JOB/04.usfm index ea8b1100..4471d5bb 100644 --- a/18-JOB/04.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/04.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 You say that you honor God; so you should be trusting in him, for him not to let you suffer. \q2 If you really had not sinned, you would have been confident that God would not let these disasters happen to you! -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/05.usfm b/18-JOB/05.usfm index 156b5a64..a8e06c4f 100644 --- a/18-JOB/05.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/05.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 People make trouble for themselves from the time that they are born; \q2 this is as certain as the fact that sparks shoot up from a fire. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 So poor people confidently expect that good things will happen to them; \q2 but God stops wicked people from saying evil things. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -103,7 +101,6 @@ \q1 \v 26 You will become very old before you die, \q2 like sheaves of grain continue to grow until it is time to harvest and thresh them. -\b \q1 \v 27 My friends and I have thought carefully about these things, and we know that they are true, \q2 so pay attention to what I have said!" diff --git a/18-JOB/06.usfm b/18-JOB/06.usfm index 783a2a97..0f3cd613 100644 --- a/18-JOB/06.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/06.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \v 7 I do not want to eat food like that, \q2 because it disgusts me, \q1 and I do not like what you have said to me. -\b \q1 \v 8 I wish that God would do for me what I have asked of him: \q1 @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 If he would do that, I would be comforted because I would know that in spite of the great pain that I have suffered, \q2 I have always obeyed what God, the Holy One, has commanded. -\b \q1 \v 11 But now I do not have enough strength to endure all these things. \q2 And since I have nothing to hope for in the future, @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 So I am not able to help myself; \q2 I am not wise enough for that. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -110,7 +107,6 @@ \v 27 You do not sympathize with me at all for the things that I am suffering. \q2 You will do anything to get something for yourselves! You would even play a game to see who gets an orphan as a prize! -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/07.usfm b/18-JOB/07.usfm index 9b8c0e55..305f69e2 100644 --- a/18-JOB/07.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/07.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs; \q2 pus oozes out of my open sores. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 they never return to their houses, \q2 and the people who are still alive do not remember them anymore. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -68,7 +66,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many more years. \q2 Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short time. -\b \q1 \v 17 We human beings are not very important; \q2 so why do you pay so much attention to us ? diff --git a/18-JOB/08.usfm b/18-JOB/08.usfm index e1425e8f..54337efa 100644 --- a/18-JOB/08.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/08.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 Even though you were not very prosperous before, \q2 during the last stage of your life you would become very wealthy. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 Truly, this is all the joy that evil people have: \q2 other people just come and take their places. -\b \q1 \v 20 So, I tell you, Job, God will not reject you if you honor him, \q2 but he does not help evil people. diff --git a/18-JOB/09.usfm b/18-JOB/09.usfm index edcd7eb4..41a75dc2 100644 --- a/18-JOB/09.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/09.usfm @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 God will not very easily stop being angry; \q2 he defeated the servants of Rahab, the great sea monster. -\b \q1 \v 14 If God took me to court, \q2 what could I say to answer him? @@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 Even though I was innocent, anything I said would cause him to punish me; \q2 even though I had not done anything wrong, he would still prove that I was guilty. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,7 +91,6 @@ \q2 It is as though he had caused judges to be blind, no longer able to judge fairly. \q1 If it is not God who has done that, \q2 who, then, has done it? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -122,7 +119,6 @@ \q1 \v 31 he would still throw me into a filthy pit; \q2 as a result it would be as though even my clothes would detest me. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/10.usfm b/18-JOB/10.usfm index b054b8f4..371ec9da 100644 --- a/18-JOB/10.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/10.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 You know that I am not guilty, \q2 and that no one can rescue me from your power. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 You have caused me to be alive; you have faithfully loved me, \q2 and you have carefully preserved me. -\b \q1 \v 13 But you kept secret what you were planning to do to me; \q2 I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me. @@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ \v 17 You constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong, \q2 and you continually become more angry with me. \q2 It is as though you are [were] always bringing new troops to attack me. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/11.usfm b/18-JOB/11.usfm index 27d1a379..eb7640c8 100644 --- a/18-JOB/11.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/11.usfm @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ \v 6 God knows everything about everything, \q2 so I wish that he would tell you the secrets that he knows because he is wise. \q1 It would be good if you realized that God is punishing you less than you deserve! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 What there is to know about God is wider than the earth \q2 and wider than the ocean. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 Stupid people like you will start to become wise \q2 when wild donkeys start giving birth to people. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/12.usfm b/18-JOB/12.usfm index d765fe36..8f0a90e0 100644 --- a/18-JOB/12.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/12.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \v 3 But I have as much good sense as you do; \q2 I am no less wise than you are. \q2 Certainly everyone knows all that you have said. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ \v 6 Meanwhile, bandits live peacefully, \q2 and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; \q2 the god they worship is their own strength. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/13.usfm b/18-JOB/13.usfm index 8267b506..2e2467a5 100644 --- a/18-JOB/13.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/13.usfm @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 What you have said—the things that you think are so wise—are as useless as ashes; \q2 what you say to defend how you think is no better than clay that quickly crumbles. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +76,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 I certainly do not think that you or anyone else will say that what I say is false; \q2 if you did so, then I would speak no more, and I would die. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/14.usfm b/18-JOB/14.usfm index 976d2c9b..6e5654c1 100644 --- a/18-JOB/14.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/14.usfm @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ \q1 Until the heavens do not exist any longer; \q2 people who die do not wake up, \q2 and no one can wake them up. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 The record of my sins would be sealed in a small bag, \q2 and you would cover them. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/15.usfm b/18-JOB/15.usfm index ef66a48a..01c38733 100644 --- a/18-JOB/15.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/15.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 Everything that you say shows that God should punish you; \q2 it is not necessary for me to prove that. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 You are angry with God, \q2 and so you say harsh things against him. -\b \q1 \v 14 How can any person, including you, be sinless? \q2 How can anyone on the earth be completely righteous? @@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 So he certainly does not trust disgusting people, \q2 those who commit evil deeds as often as they drink water. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/16.usfm b/18-JOB/16.usfm index b7743865..f004d0fa 100644 --- a/18-JOB/16.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/16.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 Then you would see whether my words encouraged you or not; \q2 you would see whether they made you feel your pain less. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -65,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 It is as though I were a wall that he is breaking through time after time; \q2 he rushes at me like a soldier who is attacking his enemy. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 All this has happened to me even though I have not acted violently toward anyone, \q2 and even though I always pray sincerely to God. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ I want it to cry out against those who killed me, \q1 \v 21 I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me \q2 as a person pleads for his friend. -\b \q1 \v 22 I say this because within a few years I will die; \q2 I will walk along the road to a place from which I will never return." diff --git a/18-JOB/17.usfm b/18-JOB/17.usfm index c4141136..6ce98b03 100644 --- a/18-JOB/17.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/17.usfm @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ \v 5 Our ancestors said, 'It often happens that when someone betrays his friends in order to get some of their property, \q2 it is that person's children who will be punished for it;' \q1 so I desire that will be true of these friends of mine who are lying about me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Those who are truly righteous will continue to do what is right, \q2 and those who live righteously will continue to become stronger. -\b \q1 \v 10 But all you friends of mine, \q2 I do not find even one among you who is wise. diff --git a/18-JOB/18.usfm b/18-JOB/18.usfm index b8e9cefb..9607ed91 100644 --- a/18-JOB/18.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/18.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ \v 4 By being very angry, you are only hurting yourself. \q2 Do you think that everyone on the earth must leave to prove that you are right, \q2 or do you think that God must move the rocks in the mountains to please you? -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/19.usfm b/18-JOB/19.usfm index 85203025..1f9d3f51 100644 --- a/18-JOB/19.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/19.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 you should realize that it is God who has caused me to suffer. \q2 It is as though he has a net and that he has caught me in it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ \v 12 It is as though he were sending his army to attack me; \q2 they surround my tent \q2 and get ready to attack me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -82,14 +80,12 @@ \q1 \v 20 My body is only skin and bones; \q2 I am barely alive. -\b \q1 \v 21 I plead with you, my three friends, pity me \q2 because God has struck me very hard. \q1 \v 22 Why do you cause me to suffer, also? Do you think you are God? \q2 Why do you never get enough of accusing me of doing wrong? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -110,7 +106,6 @@ \v 27 I will see him myself; \q2 I will see him with my own eyes! \q2 My emotions overwhelm me as I think about that! -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/20.usfm b/18-JOB/20.usfm index 186a6e21..15a83726 100644 --- a/18-JOB/20.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/20.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 By saying these things you have insulted me, \q2 but something within my understanding suggests to me how I may reply to you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 The bodies of the wicked were once young and strong, \q2 but they will die and be buried in the ground. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, \q2 and they took other people's houses by cheating them. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/21.usfm b/18-JOB/21.usfm index addcdffd..2d104eab 100644 --- a/18-JOB/21.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/21.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 Be patient with me, and allow me to speak. \q2 Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 When I think about what has happened to me, \q2 I am frightened and my entire body shakes. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -62,7 +60,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 Wicked people think that they have become prosperous because of what they have done, \q2 but I do not want to have anything to do with their thinking. -\b \q1 \v 17 How often does it happen that wicked people die, \q2 without experiencing disasters? @@ -83,7 +80,6 @@ \q1 \v 21 After wicked people are dead, \q2 they are not at all concerned for their families who are still alive. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -104,7 +100,6 @@ \v 26 They die and are buried, \q2 and maggots cover their bodies. \q1 Everyone dies, so it is clear that dying is not always the punishment for being wicked. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -133,7 +128,6 @@ \v 33 A huge number of people go to the grave site; \q2 some go in front of the procession and some come behind, \q2 and the wicked ones who have died surely feel good when people throw clods of dirt on their graves. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/22.usfm b/18-JOB/22.usfm index 3e7f2d7a..3c805cb1 100644 --- a/18-JOB/22.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/22.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 If you were righteous, that would not please Almighty God, would it? \q2 If you lived a perfect life, that would not help him, would it? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 It is as though it had become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, \q2 and it is as though a flood covered you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,14 +68,12 @@ \q1 \v 18 Yet it was God who filled their houses with good things; \q2 so I cannot agree at all to follow what the wicked plan. -\b \q1 \v 19 When righteous people see that God punishes wicked people, they are glad, \q2 and they laugh at those wicked people. \q1 \v 20 They say, 'Now our enemies have been destroyed, \q2 and fire has burned up anything left of their wealth.' -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/23.usfm b/18-JOB/23.usfm index b5e54118..0a3a2c59 100644 --- a/18-JOB/23.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/23.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 I am an honest man, so I would be able to discuss things with him fairly, \q2 and then he would declare that I am innocent, and he would not trouble me again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -46,7 +45,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 I have always obeyed what he commanded; \q2 I have hidden away in my inner being the words that he has spoken. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/24.usfm b/18-JOB/24.usfm index 1a7df3bf..cecc8b50 100644 --- a/18-JOB/24.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/24.usfm @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out to God for help, \q2 but God ignores their prayers. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/27.usfm b/18-JOB/27.usfm index 1c93d7a1..9a8f1e64 100644 --- a/18-JOB/27.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/27.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 I will say that I am innocent, and I will never say anything different; \q2 my inner being will never reproach me as long as I live. -\b \q1 \v 7 I want God to punish my enemies like he will punish all wicked people; \q2 I want him to punish those who oppose me like he punishes all unrighteous people. @@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ \v 10 Will they be happy about what Almighty God does? \q2 Will they begin to pray to him frequently? \q2 Certainly not! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +46,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 You three have seen for yourselves powerful things that God has done; \q2 so I do not understand why you have been saying such nonsense to me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -76,7 +73,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 The wicked people are rich when they lie down at night, \q2 but when they wake up in the morning, they find out that their money has disappeared. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/28.usfm b/18-JOB/28.usfm index 747ed076..b5b1c75a 100644 --- a/18-JOB/28.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/28.usfm @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 They dam up small streams to stop the water from flowing, \q2 and they bring up into the light things that are hidden in the ground and in the streams. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 The prices of topaz from Ethiopia and of pure gold \q2 are lower than the value of wisdom. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/29.usfm b/18-JOB/29.usfm index 2cd82684..049911c4 100644 --- a/18-JOB/29.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/29.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 My herds provided me with plenty of milk, \q2 and streams of oil flowed from the rock where my servants pressed the olives. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 I made wicked people stop oppressing others; it was like someone who breaks the teeth of wild animals \q2 and forces them to drop their victims from their teeth. -\b \q1 \v 18 At that time I thought, 'Surely I will live in peace until I am very old, \q2 and I will die at home with my family. @@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 People always honor me, \q2 and I am always strong like a new bow.' -\b \q1 \v 21 When I spoke, people waited to hear what I would say; \q2 they remained silent until I advised them what they should do. diff --git a/18-JOB/30.usfm b/18-JOB/30.usfm index 18f670c2..d578d0cb 100644 --- a/18-JOB/30.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/30.usfm @@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 He has thrown me into the mud; \q2 I am not worth anything more than dust and ashes. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -97,7 +96,6 @@ \q1 \v 23 I know that you will cause me to die, \q2 which is what happens to everyone who is alive. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/31.usfm b/18-JOB/31.usfm index fe1c95ce..bf41a057 100644 --- a/18-JOB/31.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/31.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ \v 4 God certainly sees everything that I do, \q2 so why is he causing me to suffer? \q2 It is as though he were counting every step that I take. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \q1 \v 8 then I hope that when I plant seeds, someone else will harvest the crops and eat them, \q2 and that others will uproot the crops that I have planted. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 My adultery would produce in me a fire like the fire that burns people in hell, \q2 and it would burn up everything that I own. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -68,7 +65,6 @@ \v 15 God, who created me, certainly also created my servants; \q2 surely he is the one who formed them and me in our mothers' wombs, \q2 so we all should behave toward each other in the same way. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -96,7 +92,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope. \q1 \v 23 I always feared that God would cause me to experience a great disaster if I did any of those evil things, \q2 and I would not have been able to endure the powerful things that he would do to punish me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -115,7 +110,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope. \q1 \v 28 those things also would be sins for which the judges would say that I must be punished \q2 because I would have been rejecting God by doing those things. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -138,7 +132,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope. \v 34 and I never remained silent and refused to go outside \q2 because I was afraid of what people would say about me, \q2 and that they would hate me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -150,7 +143,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope. \q1 \v 37 I would tell God everything that I have done, \q2 and I would approach him like a ruler would, without being afraid. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -163,7 +155,6 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope. \q1 \v 40 then I wish that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat, \q2 and that bad weeds would grow instead of barley!" -\b \q1 That is the end of what Job said to his three friends. diff --git a/18-JOB/32.usfm b/18-JOB/32.usfm index b2177a39..02f0cd0c 100644 --- a/18-JOB/32.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/32.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Not all people become wise when they are old; \q2 not all old people understand what is right. -\b \q1 \v 10 That is why I say to you now, 'Listen to me, \q2 and allow me to declare what I know.' @@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 Job was replying to you, not to me, \q2 so I will not reply to him by saying what you three have said. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/33.usfm b/18-JOB/33.usfm index 2e89ffdb..0b20fdc4 100644 --- a/18-JOB/33.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/33.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 So answer what I say if you can; \q2 think carefully what you will reply to me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 It is as though he had put my feet in stocks, \q2 and he watches everything that I do.' -\b \q1 \v 12 However, what you have said is wrong, \q2 and I will tell you what you have said that is wrong. @@ -86,7 +84,6 @@ \q1 \v 22 We know that we will soon die \q2 and go to the place where dead people are. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -116,7 +113,6 @@ \q1 \v 28 He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are, \q2 and I will continue to enjoy being alive.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -124,7 +120,6 @@ \q1 \v 30 he preserves us from dying and going to the place where the dead are, \q2 in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/34.usfm b/18-JOB/34.usfm index d757eee3..7b16075a 100644 --- a/18-JOB/34.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/34.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ \q2 and spends time with wicked people. \q1 \v 9 He certainly does these things, because he has said, 'It is useless for people to try to please God.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 everyone would die immediately, \q2 and their corpses would soon become soil again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -79,7 +77,6 @@ \v 20 They often die suddenly; \q2 he strikes them at midnight and they die; \q2 he gets rid of important people without the help of any humans. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -121,7 +118,6 @@ \q1 \v 30 He does this so that those who rule over us may honor him, \q2 so that our rulers do not oppress us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -136,7 +132,6 @@ \q2 but do you think that he will do what you want him to do? \q1 It is you who must choose what you should say to God, not I; \q2 tell me what you are thinking about this. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/35.usfm b/18-JOB/35.usfm index 7a440369..b16ef224 100644 --- a/18-JOB/35.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/35.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 Well, I will answer you, \q2 and I will answer your three friends, too. -\b \q1 \v 5 Job, look up at the sky; \q2 look at the clouds that are high above you @@ -31,7 +30,6 @@ \q1 \v 8 It is other people who can suffer because of the wicked things that you do; \q2 In the same way, you might help others if you do good things for them. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/36.usfm b/18-JOB/36.usfm index 4d2fd69c..e07caf32 100644 --- a/18-JOB/36.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/36.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 I will not say anything to you that is false; \q2 I, who am standing in front of you, am someone who understands things very well. -\b \q1 \v 5 Really, God is very powerful, and he does not despise anyone, \q2 and he understands everything. @@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ \v 12 But if they do not listen to him, \q2 they will die violently \q2 because they understand nothing about God and what he wants them to do. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 God actually rescues people by causing them to suffer; \q2 by afflicting them, he causes them to listen to what he is telling them. -\b \q1 \v 16 Job, I think that God wants to bring you out of your troubles \q2 and allow you to live without distress; @@ -91,7 +88,6 @@ \q1 \v 21 Be careful not to begin doing evil deeds, \q2 because God has caused you to suffer to prevent you from doing evil. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -108,7 +104,6 @@ \q1 \v 25 All people have seen what he has done, \q2 but we understand those things only a little. -\b \q1 \v 26 How great God is! We are not able to know how great he is, \q2 and we do not understand how old he is. diff --git a/18-JOB/37.usfm b/18-JOB/37.usfm index 7010521e..b441607d 100644 --- a/18-JOB/37.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/37.usfm @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 Sometimes God sends rain to punish us, sometimes to water the land that he has made, \q2 and sometimes because he wants to be very kind to us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -73,7 +72,6 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 18 Can you stretch out the skies like God does and make them as hard as a metal mirror? -\b \q1 \v 19 Job, you know so much! So tell us what we should say to God; \q2 we do not know anything about how we should defend ourselves. diff --git a/18-JOB/38.usfm b/18-JOB/38.usfm index 57507320..bfc1fe1c 100644 --- a/18-JOB/38.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/38.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \v 3 I want to ask you some questions, \q2 so act like a man and \q2 get ready to answer my questions. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ \q2 and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, \q2 and all the angels shouted joyfully when they saw that happen, \q1 who laid that cornerstone? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +46,6 @@ \v 11 I pointed to the shore and said to the water, \q2 'I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. \q2 Your powerful waves must stop here!' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -65,7 +62,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness that they like; \q2 in the daylight they no longer are able to hurt anyone. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +73,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 Do you know how big the earth is? \q2 Tell me, if you know all these things! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -90,7 +85,6 @@ \v 21 I am sure that you know these things \q2 because you were born before the time when all things were created; \q2 you must be very old! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -124,7 +118,6 @@ \q1 \v 30 In the winter, the water freezes and becomes as hard as a rock, \q2 and the surface of lakes becomes frozen. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -135,7 +128,6 @@ \q1 \v 33 Do you know the laws that the stars must obey? \q2 Can you cause those same laws to rule everything here on the earth? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -153,7 +145,6 @@ \q1 \v 38 so that the dry ground becomes hard \q2 as the dry clods become wet and stick together? -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/39.usfm b/18-JOB/39.usfm index 788bbfd1..683c32b2 100644 --- a/18-JOB/39.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/39.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 The young calves grow up in the open fields, \q2 and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ \q1 \v 8 They go over the hills to find food; \q2 there they search for grass to eat. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -47,7 +45,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 Can you rely on it to come back from the field \q2 bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -72,7 +69,6 @@ \v 18 However, when they get up and begin to run, \q2 they scornfully laugh at horses with their riders \q2 because the horses cannot run as fast as the ostriches! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -101,7 +97,6 @@ \v 25 They neigh joyfully when they hear someone blowing the trumpet. \q2 They can smell a battle even when they are far away, \q2 and they understand what it means when the commanders shout their commands to their soldiers. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/40.usfm b/18-JOB/40.usfm index 79ba5133..c03823bb 100644 --- a/18-JOB/40.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/40.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \v 7 "I want to ask you some questions, \q2 so act like a man and \q2 get ready to answer my questions. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 8 Are you going to accuse me and say that I am unjust? @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 If you do that, I will congratulate you \q2 and say that truly you can save yourself by your own ability. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/18-JOB/41.usfm b/18-JOB/41.usfm index 4de308e8..e0eaed6c 100644 --- a/18-JOB/41.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/41.usfm @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 Also, everything on the earth is mine. \q2 Therefore, no one is able to give anything to me and require me to pay money for it! -\b \q1 \v 12 I will tell you about how strong crocodiles' legs are \q2 and how strong their well formed bodies are. diff --git a/20-PRO/02.usfm b/20-PRO/02.usfm index 1891a25e..51aace0c 100644 --- a/20-PRO/02.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/02.usfm @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 They bend the truth and live by deception \q2 and their lies hide what they have done. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 All who go to her to sleep with her have no way to get out of her house, \q2 they will be so lost they will never find the way back to life. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/20-PRO/03.usfm b/20-PRO/03.usfm index 62b9330d..2685d429 100644 --- a/20-PRO/03.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/03.usfm @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ your storerooms will be so full that they will overflow, \v 28 Do not say to your neighbor, "Come back later; \q2 perhaps I will help you tomorrow," \q2 when you have the money with you and can help them now. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/20-PRO/09.usfm b/20-PRO/09.usfm index e2579e67..497cf4f0 100644 --- a/20-PRO/09.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/09.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 Leave your untrained ways behind you, and live, \q2 and I will show you how to walk on the road that will give you understanding. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 If you give instruction to a wise person, he will become even more wise. \q2 And if you teach a person who does what is right, he will learn even more. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 If you become wise, you will gain many benefits from it; \q2 if you ridicule other people, you will suffer by yourself." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/20-PRO/10.usfm b/20-PRO/10.usfm index c672450f..57707d5a 100644 --- a/20-PRO/10.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/10.usfm @@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ \q1 \v 22 Yahweh gives good gifts that make some people wealthy, \q2 and he does not make them suffer for it. -\b \q1 \v 23 Foolish people play games when they do what is wrong, \q2 but people with understanding enjoy wisdom. diff --git a/20-PRO/13.usfm b/20-PRO/13.usfm index 1f7d8128..21289a6d 100644 --- a/20-PRO/13.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/13.usfm @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 Those who despise good advice bring the punishment for disobeying upon themselves; \q2 the one who pays attention to the instruction will receive honor. -\b \q1 \v 14 The lesson taught by the wise are like a fountain that gives life to all who drink from it, \q2 and they inform you about all the deadly dangers around you. diff --git a/20-PRO/14.usfm b/20-PRO/14.usfm index f291104a..b1406435 100644 --- a/20-PRO/14.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/14.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 You can tell if a witness is reliable, if he tells the truth, \q2 but when a witness breaths out lie after lie, he is a false witness and cannot be depended on. -\b \q1 \v 6 One who thinks he is better than others, he may seek wisdom, but he will not find it, \q2 but the one who has grown in knowledge can easily learn much more. @@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 Do not stay close to a foolish person: Walk away from him. \q2 There is no knowledge to be learned from him. -\b \q1 \v 8 The one who has learned much knowledge applies it to his own life; that is wisdom. \q2 The foundation of all folly is the lie. @@ -36,7 +34,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Fools watch the guilt offering being sacrificed in the temple, and they make fun of it, \q2 but those who please Yahweh are glad to share his favor. -\b \q1 \v 10 A person keeps close inside all his bitterness and disappointment; \q2 and no stranger will ever know all the joy it contains. @@ -44,7 +41,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 The family of the wicked will be destroyed, \q2 but a little tent where the upright live will grow, like a tree grows into something grand. -\b \q1 \v 12 A person sees a way, and it appears to be the right way for him to go, \q2 but he does not know that it only leads to death. @@ -52,7 +48,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 A person can be in great pain and still be able to laugh; \q2 a time of great joy may end in grief. -\b \q1 \v 14 The faithless man will receive from Yahweh what he deserves; \q2 but Yahweh will give a good person what is his. @@ -61,7 +56,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 Those who have had no instruction believe everything they are told, \q2 but the man who has learned some knowledge thinks about what he will do. -\b \q1 \v 16 A wise person sees evil and is afraid of it, and he turns away from it; \q2 the foolish person boldly throws aside every warning. @@ -69,7 +63,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 Those who get angry quickly do foolish things; \q2 people hate those who make evil plans. -\b \q1 \v 18 Those who have not been instructed have foolishness handed to them; \q2 those who have learned a little knowledge are surrounded by it. @@ -77,7 +70,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 Evil people will bow down before those who are good, \q2 and the wicked people will bow down at the gates of those who do right. -\b \q1 \v 20 The poor are hated even by their own companions, \q2 but the rich have many friends. @@ -85,7 +77,6 @@ \q1 \v 21 It is sinful to have contempt for your neighbors; \q2 but how fortunate are those who do kind things for the poor. -\b \q1 \v 22 Those who plot with evil plans, do they not go astray? \q2 But those who make plans for the good will receive love and faithfulness. @@ -94,7 +85,6 @@ \q1 \v 23 If you work hard, you will make some money, \q2 but where there is only talk, it leads to poverty. -\b \q1 \v 24 The reward of the wise is the wealth they have, \q2 but the folly of fools only brings them more foolishness. @@ -107,37 +97,30 @@ \v 26 Those give Yahweh the honor he deserves \q2 have much confidence in him; \q2 giving honor to Yahweh will also protect your children. -\b \q1 \v 27 Giving Yahweh the honor he deserves is like having a fountain that gives life; \q2 so you can keep away from being trapped by death. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 28 A king measures his glory by the number of the people in his kingdom, \q2 but if the prince has no people, he is brought to ruin. -\b \q1 \v 29 Those who do not quickly become angry have much understanding; \q2 the quick-tempered praise foolishness. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 30 Being at peace is good for the whole body, \q2 but having evil within, rots the bones. -\b \q1 \v 31 The one who oppresses a poor person curses Yahweh who made him, \q2 but those who show favor to a poor person honor Yahweh. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 32 The wicked person is brought down by his evil actions, \q2 but those who do what is right have a safe home, even in death. -\b \q1 \v 33 Wisdom finds a place to rest in someone who has discernment, \q2 but wisdom lets herself be known even among fools. @@ -145,7 +128,6 @@ \q1 \v 34 When a people do what is right, the nation does well, \q2 but sin brings disgrace upon any people. -\b \q1 \v 35 A king is pleased with a servant who does his work with good judgment, \q2 but the king is angry with any servant who brings shame to him. diff --git a/20-PRO/15.usfm b/20-PRO/15.usfm index eb3d993b..f7573257 100644 --- a/20-PRO/15.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/15.usfm @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 Yahweh sees everything that is happening; \q2 he keeps account of the evil and of the good. -\b \q1 \v 4 A person who can give healing with what they say is like a tree that gives life; \q2 when someone lies to you, it can feel like they have crushed you. @@ -25,13 +24,11 @@ \q1 \v 6 In the families of those who do right there are great treasures, \q2 but the wealth that the wicked have gives them great troubles. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 7 The wise scatter knowledge about like the farmer scatters his seed, \q2 but the hearts of fools are not so generous. -\b \q1 \v 8 Yahweh hates it when the wicked offer their sacrifices, \q2 but when those who please him pray, he is delighted. @@ -42,33 +39,27 @@ \q1 \v 10 Yahweh will discipline those who lose their way, \q2 and those who hate correction will die. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 11 The places of death and destruction are known to Yahweh; \q2 how much more does Yahweh know everything within the minds of the people he has made? -\b \q1 \v 12 The one who thinks he is better than anyone, he resents being corrected by anyone; \q2 he thinks he is so smart, he will never talk with one who is wise. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 13 When people are happy, they have smiles on their faces, \q2 but sadness is so strong it crushes the person. -\b \q1 \v 14 The longing of the one who is wise is to gain more knowledge, \q2 but foolish people only say foolish things. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 15 Every day for one who is oppressed is misery for him, \q2 but those who have a happy heart, for them life is a never-ending party. -\b \q1 \v 16 It is much better to have only a little and to give Yahweh the honor he deserves, \q2 than to have great wealth along with much confusion. @@ -80,13 +71,11 @@ \q1 \v 18 When a person is angry, he stirs up more arguments, \q2 but one who does not quickly become angry, he is able to stop an argument and make peace. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 19 The life of a lazy person is like someone trying to walk through a hedge of thorns, \q2 but those who do what pleases Yahweh are like those who are walking on a level highway. -\b \q1 \v 20 A wise child brings happiness to his father, \q2 but it is a foolish person who despises his mother. @@ -95,21 +84,17 @@ \q1 \v 21 Foolish people enjoy their folly; \q2 those who have insight live a good life. -\b \q1 \v 22 When there is no one giving advice, plans go wrong, \q2 but with many advisors, they will succeed. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 23 People rejoice when they give a good answer, \q2 and how nice is the right word spoken at the right moment. -\b \q1 \v 24 The path leading to life goes up, away from death; \q2 he follows that way and turns from the place of the dead. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -118,13 +103,11 @@ \q1 \v 26 Yahweh hates what wicked people are thinking about, \q2 but when people say what is kind, they are pure. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 27 The thief brings many troubles to his family, \q2 but the one who refuses to accept bribes will live. -\b \q1 \v 28 The people who do right think carefully before they answer; \q2 it is like the wicked pour out of their mouths all kinds of evil when they talk. @@ -136,7 +119,6 @@ \q1 \v 30 When people smile, it makes them happy, \q2 and good news brings healing to the body. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -145,7 +127,6 @@ \q1 \v 32 The one who refuses to follow discipline, despises himself; \q2 the one who receives correction gains understanding as well. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/20-PRO/16.usfm b/20-PRO/16.usfm index b51d521e..ae9c790a 100644 --- a/20-PRO/16.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/16.usfm @@ -5,17 +5,14 @@ \q1 \v 1 People make plans out of their longings deep within them, \q2 but it is Yahweh who tells him what will happen. -\b \q1 \v 2 A person sees nothing wrong with what he does, \q2 but Yahweh measures every part of what a person does according to his purposes. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 3 When you work, give all your ideas and your labor to Yahweh, \q2 and your plans will be successful. -\b \q1 \v 4 When Yahweh made everything, he made them so they would all accomplish something for him. \q2 He has even made the wicked for the day when there is great trouble. @@ -23,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 Yahweh hates those whose pride comes from deep within them. \q2 But you can be sure of this: they will still be punished for their pride. -\b \q1 \v 6 Love and faithfulness will cover over sin and forgive sin. \q2 When people give Yahweh the respect he deserves, @@ -41,31 +37,25 @@ \q1 \v 9 From deep within a person come the plans he makes, \q2 but Yahweh leads the person in each step he takes. -\b \q1 \v 10 A king can speak with inspired judgment; \q2 and when he makes a ruling, it is good and true. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 11 Honest scales come from Yahweh; \q2 it is he who decided how much each unit should weigh. -\b \q1 \v 12 We should hate it when kings do wicked things, \q2 for the throne is set on a firm foundation when the king does what is right. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 13 A king is happy when he hears someone speaking what is right; \q2 and he loves the one who is direct when he talks. -\b \q1 \v 14 If a king becomes angry, his wrath is a danger that can kill; \q2 so wise people will try to calm him so that he is not too angry. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -74,25 +64,21 @@ \q1 \v 16 Becoming wise is better than having gold; \q2 getting good understanding is better than having silver. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 17 The one who lives in the way that is right will turn away from doing evil; \q2 whoever is careful about how he lives his life \q2 will preserve his life. -\b \q1 \v 18 Pride happens to someone first, and then he perishes. \q2 If someone thinks he is better than others, \q2 he will have a terrible fall. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 19 It is better to be humble and live among the poor \q2 than to receive a portion of what proud people took by force. -\b \q1 \v 20 Those who think about what they have been taught \q2 find many good things in the lesson; @@ -114,45 +100,37 @@ \v 24 Kind words are like a honeycomb; \q2 they are sweet for us to take in, \q2 and they give healing to our bodies. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 25 A person lives out his life and he thinks he is doing what is right, \q2 but when he comes to the end of his life, all he finds is death. -\b \q1 \v 26 A worker's appetite drives him to work harder, \q2 his hunger urges him to keep working. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 27 A worthless man digs and digs until he finds something \q2 he can use to embarrass someone and cause them trouble; \q2 and what he says about them is like a fire that burns the field. -\b \q1 \v 28 A person who has no morals stirs up conflict between people; \q2 and those who spread rumors pull friends apart. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 29 A violent person tells lies to his friend, \q2 and he leads him down a path that will never find what is good. -\b \q1 \v 30 The one who winks the eye is signaling to others it is time to begin their terrible plot; \q2 those who press their lips together, they do evil things. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 31 Gray hair is like a glorious crown; \q2 it is given to those who live their lives \q2 by doing what is right. -\b \q1 \v 32 The one who is slow to get angry is stronger than a warrior; \q2 the one who is self-controlled is mightier than one who conquers a city by force. diff --git a/20-PRO/17.usfm b/20-PRO/17.usfm index 78c580da..57553610 100644 --- a/20-PRO/17.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/17.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \q1 \v 1 It is better to eat a dry piece of bread and not have strife \q2 than to live in a house where quarreling is as regular as feasting. -\b \q1 \v 2 A slave who acts wisely will rule over the son of his master \q2 if that son does shameful things. @@ -14,21 +13,17 @@ \q1 \v 3 Silver is put into the crucible to be refined, and gold is put into the furnace to be made pure, \q2 but it is Yahweh who makes people pure. -\b \q1 \v 4 Those who do what is evil pay attention to the person who talks in wicked ways, \q2 and those who tell lies listen to those who speak in order to make trouble. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 5 The one who makes fun of those who are poor insults Yahweh who made him; \q2 Yahweh will punish those who are happy when someone else has troubles. -\b \q1 \v 6 Grandchildren bring honor and respect to the aged, \q2 and parents bring honor to their children. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,18 +32,15 @@ \q1 \v 8 A bribe works like magic for the one who is giving the bribe; \q2 everything he tries to do by giving bribes succeeds. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 9 You must learn not to be offended by the one you love, \q2 but if you bring up something to your friend that hurt you, and you do it over and over, \q2 that will pull the best of friends apart. -\b \q1 \v 10 A rebuke to someone with understanding goes deeper into him \q2 than trying to teach a fool by hitting him a hundred times with a stick. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -62,7 +54,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 If someone gives back evil for the good that was given to him, \q2 evil will stay in his family. -\b \q1 \v 14 Starting a quarrel is like pumping water and letting it run everywhere; \q2 it is much better to walk away before it starts. @@ -71,21 +62,17 @@ \q1 \v 15 When a court sets the wicked free and condemns those who do what is right, \q2 Yahweh hates both of these actions. -\b \q1 \v 16 There is no benefit for a fool when he pays money to learn about wisdom; \q2 no matter how much he tries, he will not be able to learn about wisdom. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 17 A friend loves you all the time, \q2 and when you are in trouble, there is no one better than a brother to help you. -\b \q1 \v 18 One having no good judgment will make a contract he cannot pay, \q2 and he will even may a promise to pay the money his neighbor owes. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -99,17 +86,14 @@ \q1 \v 21 The father who has a fool brings sadness into his life; \q2 the father of a fool cannot live a happy life. -\b \q1 \v 22 Being cheerful is like medicine that makes you feel better, \q2 but when you are crushed by sadness, it is as if every bone within you could break with only a touch. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 23 A wicked person accepts a bribe in such a way as no one could see him, \q2 so the bribe would change the verdict in his favor. -\b \q1 \v 24 The one who has begun to understand, he knows that he must also now go after wisdom. \q2 However, the foolish person has bold plans and impossible dreams, @@ -126,7 +110,6 @@ \q1 \v 27 The one who has learned knowledge, learned to speak well using few words, \q2 and the one who has understanding, does not lose his temper. -\b \q1 \v 28 When a fool keeps silent, some may think he is very wise; \q2 when he keeps his mouth shut, even a fool looks intelligent. diff --git a/20-PRO/18.usfm b/20-PRO/18.usfm index af976cb5..e623b5d5 100644 --- a/20-PRO/18.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/18.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \q1 \v 2 A foolish person does not enjoy understanding anything; \q2 he only wants to tell others what he thinks. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 When the wicked are treated with special honor, it is not good, \q2 and it is not good to refuse to give justice to those who do what is right. -\b \q1 \v 6 A foolish person says things that start arguments; \q2 he says things that make other people want to beat him with a stick. @@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ \q2 may be harder than waging a battle to win a city. \q2 and having an argument is more difficult to overcome \q2 than breaking down the bars of a castle. -\b \q1 \v 20 The words a person speaks can bring satisfaction to himself, \q2 like the food he eats satisfies his stomach. @@ -86,7 +83,6 @@ \q1 \v 21 People are able to kill others or keep them alive by means of what they say. \q2 And there is danger for those who love the power of their speaking. -\b \q1 \v 22 The one who finds a wife, finds something so good it is a gift to bless his life, \q2 and it is Yahweh who gives him this wonderful gift. diff --git a/20-PRO/19.usfm b/20-PRO/19.usfm index 87bb1cbc..448575d5 100644 --- a/20-PRO/19.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/19.usfm @@ -15,13 +15,11 @@ \q1 \v 4 Those who are wealthy easily find many friends, but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend he had. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 5 A person who lies in order to become a friend will be punished for taking advantage, \q2 just as the one whose every word he speaks is a lie, he will not escape. -\b \q1 \v 6 When a person is generous with their gifts, many people will ask for favors, \q2 it seems that everyone is a friend of the one who gives many gifts. @@ -51,7 +49,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h \q1 \v 13 A foolish child will ruin a father. \q2 A wife who is always quarreling will upset her husband like water that is constantly dripping. -\b \q1 \v 14 We can inherit houses and money from our parents, \q2 but a sensible wife is from Yahweh. @@ -59,7 +56,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h \q1 \v 15 The one who is lazy finds that sleep comes easily to him, \q2 but anyone who refuses to work will go hungry. -\b \q1 \v 16 The one who follows the command he was taught puts a guard over his life, \q2 but the one who does not think about how he lives his life will die. @@ -67,7 +63,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h \q1 \v 17 One who is kind to the poor, it is as if he were lending to Yahweh; \q2 and Yahweh will pay him for what he did. -\b \q1 \v 18 Train your children and give them discipline while it is still possible to rescue them; \q2 but do not allow them to offend you so much that you consider taking their lives. @@ -79,7 +74,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h \q1 \v 20 Pay attention to good guidance and let others teach you \q2 so that you can become wise by the end of your life. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -110,7 +104,6 @@ but a poor person will find that his poverty separates him from the one friend h \q1 \v 27 My son, if you will not listen to the teaching, \q2 you will wander away from the words of knowledge. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/20-PRO/20.usfm b/20-PRO/20.usfm index db8ccf56..599941d0 100644 --- a/20-PRO/20.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/20.usfm @@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ \q1 \v 1 Wine makes you loud, and strong drink makes you foolish; \q2 whoever lets alcohol lead them to where they get lost is not wise. -\b \q1 \v 2 The king's wrath makes people as afraid as if they were facing a young lion roaring at them; \q2 the person who makes a king angry is giving up his own life. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -24,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 The purposes within a person's life are like waters in a deep well, \q2 but a person who has understanding is able to draw them out. -\b \q1 \v 6 Many people proclaim that they can be trusted to do what they promise, \q2 but it is very difficult to find one who can really be trusted. @@ -40,7 +37,6 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 9 No one can truthfully say, "I have kept my heart pure, and I am free from my sins." -\b \q1 \v 10 Uneven weights, improperly marked, and unequal measures, that favor the one who is selling, \q2 Yahweh hates both of them. @@ -48,7 +44,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 Also, even a youth is known by how what he does, \q2 it is clear whether what he does is pure and respectable or not. -\b \q1 \v 12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— \q2 Yahweh made them both. @@ -59,7 +54,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 "It is no good," the buyer says when he is bargaining with you about the price. \q2 But after he buys it, he goes and boasts to his friends what a good price he bought it for. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 A gossip tells secrets, \q2 so stay away from people who talk too much. -\b \q1 \v 20 If a person curses his father or his mother, \q2 his life will be put out as a light that is snuffed out. @@ -96,7 +89,6 @@ \q1 \v 23 Yahweh detests those who use dishonest scales \q2 and weights that are not accurate. -\b \q1 \v 24 Yahweh is the one who directs the way a person will go. \q2 So then, how can someone understand where he is going? @@ -112,7 +104,6 @@ \q1 \v 27 The life-giving spirit within a man is the light shining from Yahweh within us, \q2 it shines deep within and shows what is hidden deep inside us. -\b \q1 \v 28 Love and faithfulness preserve the life of the king; \q2 his throne is made strong by steadfast love. @@ -120,7 +111,6 @@ \q1 \v 29 The honor of young people is seen in how strong they are, \q2 but the splendor of old people is in their gray hair. -\b \q1 \v 30 When we are beaten, the wound that results may cleanse away evil, \q2 and beatings make our inmost self clean. diff --git a/20-PRO/21.usfm b/20-PRO/21.usfm index ca75be69..6bd90515 100644 --- a/20-PRO/21.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/21.usfm @@ -5,17 +5,14 @@ \q1 \v 1 The motives of the king are directed like a stream of water by Yahweh; \q2 he diverts the king like he directs the flow of water, in any way he wants. -\b \q1 \v 2 When a person looks at his own life, everything he does may seem right to him, \q2 but what matters is what Yahweh thinks about what he does. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 3 Doing what is right and just is more acceptable to Yahweh \q2 than offering sacrifices to him. -\b \q1 \v 4 When you show people that you think you are better than they, \q2 and add to that the pride you have within you—this shines like a light and it tells others you are a wicked person— @@ -25,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 Those who work hard and who carry out their plans will be successful, \q2 but everyone who takes action too quickly and with little planning, make themselves poor. -\b \q1 \v 6 When someone becomes rich because he tells lies, \q2 that wealth fades away like the mist; that wealth will kill him. @@ -34,7 +30,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 When wicked people act with violence, they are destroyed by their own violence, \q2 because they refuse to do what is right. -\b \q1 \v 8 A guilty person follows a path covered with lies, \q2 but the innocent chooses to do what is right. diff --git a/20-PRO/22.usfm b/20-PRO/22.usfm index 9b027d58..e6c271ee 100644 --- a/20-PRO/22.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/22.usfm @@ -5,11 +5,9 @@ \q1 \v 1 Being a person who keeps his word is more important than having great riches, \q2 and being a person who everyone respects for doing right, is better than having silver and gold. -\b \q1 \v 2 People who are rich and people who are poor have at least one thing in common— \q2 Yahweh made both of them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +46,6 @@ \v 11 When a person loves to do something just because he wants to do what is good and right— \q2 he is sincere, and his speech is filled with kindness \q2 —the king will be his friend. -\b \q1 \v 12 Yahweh gives protection to knowledge, to keep it safe, \q2 just as surely as he makes the lying promises of the betrayer fail. diff --git a/20-PRO/24.usfm b/20-PRO/24.usfm index d35570d0..65d4fc52 100644 --- a/20-PRO/24.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/24.usfm @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 26 Answering honestly—that is the best thing a person can do. -\b \q1 \v 27 First, do the work that needs to be done outside, \q2 and prepare your fields; diff --git a/20-PRO/25.usfm b/20-PRO/25.usfm index 6cc5a6b9..099ee766 100644 --- a/20-PRO/25.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/25.usfm @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 A messenger who is reliable and on time, gives delight to those who sent him, \q2 to them he is like the cold of snow at harvest time, that refreshes the ground. -\b \q1 \v 14 When someone boasts about a gift he is going to give, but never gives it, \q2 he is like the clouds and the wind that do not bring rain. diff --git a/20-PRO/27.usfm b/20-PRO/27.usfm index 725a30b2..7d719e46 100644 --- a/20-PRO/27.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/27.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \q1 \v 1 Do not boast about what will happen tomorrow, \q2 because you do not know what will come to you during that day. -\b \q1 \v 2 Do not praise yourself; let someone else praise you. \q2 It is better for someone you do not know to praise you, @@ -47,7 +46,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 My son, if you become wise, you will make me happy; \q2 so I will be able to give an answer to anyone who argues against me. -\b \q1 \v 12 One who has good sense takes cover when he sees trouble coming, \q2 but those who have no experience or knowledge rush ahead into danger. diff --git a/20-PRO/28.usfm b/20-PRO/28.usfm index e11760f0..dffc0028 100644 --- a/20-PRO/28.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/28.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \q1 \v 1 A wicked person runs away even when no one is coming after him, \q2 but the one who does what is right is as brave as lions. -\b \q1 \v 2 The more sin there is in a country, the greater the number of rulers it will have; \q2 but when there is a ruler who has understanding and knowledge, the country can last a long time. @@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 A rich person can think of himself as being wise, \q2 but someone who is poor but who has good sense will be able to tell if the rich man is really wise. -\b \q1 \v 12 When those who do what is right have a victory, it is a time to celebrate, \q2 but when those who are wicked rise up in victory, people run and hide. @@ -69,7 +67,6 @@ \v 17 If a person is guilty of murdering another \q2 he will live like a fugitive until he dies; \q2 and no one will help him. -\b \q1 \v 18 When a person lives his life and is blameless, Yahweh will keep him safe; \q2 but one who lives by his lies will be suddenly ruined. @@ -93,7 +90,6 @@ \q1 \v 23 The one who rebukes a person will later be appreciated more \q2 than the one who says nice things just to flatter him. -\b \q1 \v 24 Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother \q2 and says "That is not sinful," @@ -102,7 +98,6 @@ \q1 \v 25 A greedy person stirs up arguments between people; \q2 but the one who trusts in Yahweh will do well. -\b \q1 \v 26 One who depends on himself is a fool, \q2 those who make wise decisions escape danger. diff --git a/20-PRO/29.usfm b/20-PRO/29.usfm index 0b4e0205..c29ae0cf 100644 --- a/20-PRO/29.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/29.usfm @@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ \v 25 When one is afraid of what people can do, \q2 it is like setting a trap for himself. \q2 but whoever trusts in Yahweh is safe. -\b \q1 \v 26 Many people want to come before a ruler to get help from him, \q2 but Yahweh is the only one who gives him true justice. diff --git a/20-PRO/30.usfm b/20-PRO/30.usfm index 58ee2835..61fcae40 100644 --- a/20-PRO/30.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/30.usfm @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ \q1 the womb of a woman that never conceived a child; \q1 soil that badly needs to be watered; \q1 and a fire that burns hot and it never says, "The fire is hot enough!" -\b \q1 \v 17 The one who dishonors his father, \q2 and who disrespects and disobeys his mother. @@ -123,7 +122,6 @@ \q1 \v 28 Lizards are very small and you can hold them in your hand, \q2 but they get inside kings' palaces. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/01.usfm b/21-ECC/01.usfm index 27294b1a..58b5bb5a 100644 --- a/21-ECC/01.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/01.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \v 2 The Teacher says, "Nothing is permanent. \q2 It is all like the morning mist or the wind; \q2 It goes and comes, but for what reason? -\b \q1 \v 3 What do people gain from all the work that they do here on the earth?" @@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ \v 12 I, the Teacher, have been the king of Israel for many years, ruling in Jerusalem. \v 13 By using my wisdom, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth. It is a task that wears me out, just like anyone else who tries it. \v 14 It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is like trying to control the wind. -\b \q1 \v 15 Many things that are crooked cannot be caused to become straight. \q2 We cannot count things that we cannot see. diff --git a/21-ECC/03.usfm b/21-ECC/03.usfm index f893b056..b0097fb0 100644 --- a/21-ECC/03.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/03.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ \q1 \v 1 There is a right time for everything, \q2 a time for everything that we do in this world. -\b \q2 \v 2 There is the right time for any certain person to be born, and there is the right time for him to die. \q2 There is the right time to plant crops, and there is the right time to harvest crops. @@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ \q2 \v 8 There is the right time when we should love things that people do, and there is the right time when we should hate things that people do. \q2 There is the right time for war, and there is the right time for peace. -\b \p \v 9 What do people gain from all the work that they do? \v 10 I have seen the work that God has given people to do. diff --git a/21-ECC/04.usfm b/21-ECC/04.usfm index b34917bf..b09ab7ed 100644 --- a/21-ECC/04.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/04.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 4 I also thought about all the hard work that people do and the things they are able to accomplish. And I thought about how someone who works hard sometimes makes his neighbor jealous. I decided that this also is something that is not accomplishing anything useful. It is like trying to control the wind. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ \v 6 So some say, "It is better to be content with working quietly for a little bit of money, \q2 than to work anxiously and try to get a lot of money, \q2 which is as useless as trying to control the wind." -\b \s5 \p @@ -47,7 +45,6 @@ \q2 "Why am I working so hard; whom am I actually helping? \q1 Why am I not doing things that I would enjoy doing? \q2 What I have been doing seems useless." This is very bad. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/05.usfm b/21-ECC/05.usfm index f2779976..0d7b1191 100644 --- a/21-ECC/05.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/05.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \p \v 1 Be careful when you approach God in his house. Listen well to him. That is better than offering sacrifices to him and then not obeying him, which is foolish. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,13 +41,11 @@ \q2 will never think that they have enough. \q1 They will never be satisfied with the money that they have. \q2 That fact also makes no sense. -\b \q1 \v 11 The more money that people have, \q2 the more they want to spend it. \q1 People who have a lot of money do not benefit from it, \q2 except to look at it and admire it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -56,7 +53,6 @@ \q2 even if they do not have much food to eat. \q1 But rich people do not sleep well \q2 because they worry about their money. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/21-ECC/06.usfm b/21-ECC/06.usfm index 1580646e..bb9f7c69 100644 --- a/21-ECC/06.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/06.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ \q2 than to constantly want more things. \q1 Continually wanting more things is senseless, \q2 like trying to control the wind. -\b \q1 \v 10 All the things that exist on the earth have been given names. \q2 Everyone knows what people are like, diff --git a/21-ECC/07.usfm b/21-ECC/07.usfm index c163c88d..39c2ffa7 100644 --- a/21-ECC/07.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/07.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ \v 7 When wise people say to others, "You must pay me a lot of money for me to protect you," \q2 that causes those wise people to become foolish. \q2 Those who accept bribes become unable to do what is right. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -43,13 +42,11 @@ \q1 \v 9 Do not quickly lose your temper, \q2 because it is foolish people who become very angry. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 10 Do not say, "Things were a lot better previously," \q2 because it is only foolish people who say that. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -60,7 +57,6 @@ \q2 as we are sometimes protected by having a lot of money. \q1 However, being wise is better than having a lot of money, \q2 because being wise prevents us from doing foolish things that would cause us to die. -\b \s5 \p @@ -75,7 +71,6 @@ \q1 remember that God is the one who causes good things to happen \q2 and who also causes disasters. \q1 Yet God does not reveal to anyone exactly what his future holds. -\b \s5 \p @@ -95,17 +90,14 @@ \q1 \v 18 Continue to try to become wise and do what is right. \q2 Both of those things are found in the person who always respects God. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 19 If you are wise, you will be more powerful \q2 than the ten most powerful men in your city. -\b \q1 \v 20 There is no one in this world who always does what is right, \q2 who never sins. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -113,7 +105,6 @@ \q2 because if you do that, you might hear your servant curse you. \q1 \v 22 After all, you yourself know very well that you have also cursed other people. -\b \s5 \p @@ -127,7 +118,6 @@ \q2 by my wisdom try to understand the reason for everything. \q1 I also wanted to understand why people act wickedly \q2 and why they act very foolishly. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -136,7 +126,6 @@ \q1 If you allow her to put her arms around you, it will be as though she is fastening you with chains. \q1 Women like that will capture sinful men, \q2 but men who please God will escape from such women. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/21-ECC/08.usfm b/21-ECC/08.usfm index 5a5039bd..8bdf0661 100644 --- a/21-ECC/08.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/08.usfm @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 Although people experience many troubles, \q2 there is a right way to do them and a right time to do them. -\b \q1 \v 7 No one knows what will happen in the future, \q2 so there is no one who can tell him what is going to happen. diff --git a/21-ECC/09.usfm b/21-ECC/09.usfm index 6ce9850e..9c4d0fc0 100644 --- a/21-ECC/09.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/09.usfm @@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ \s5 \v 16 So I realized that although being wise is better than being strong, if you are poor, no one will appreciate what you do, and people will soon forget what you said. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/10.usfm b/21-ECC/10.usfm index 9a3487e9..28754cbc 100644 --- a/21-ECC/10.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/10.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 Do not quit your job when a ruler is angry with you. \q2 If you remain calm, he will probably stop being angry. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 They allow slaves to ride on horses like rich people usually do, \q2 but they force officials to walk like slaves usually do. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,18 +40,15 @@ \q2 it is possible that a stone will fall on you and injure you. \q1 It is possible that men who split logs \q2 will be injured by one of those logs. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 10 If your axe is not sharp, \q2 you will need to work harder to cut down a tree, \q1 but by using wisdom, you will succeed. -\b \q1 \v 11 If a snake bites someone before the snake is charmed, \q2 then that person's ability to charm snakes will not benefit him. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,16 +61,13 @@ \q2 and they end by saying things that are both wicked and foolish. \q2 \v 14 They talk too much. -\b \q1 None of us knows what will happen in the future, \q2 or what will happen after we die. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 15 Foolish people become very exhausted by the work that they do, \q2 with the result that they are even unable to find the road to their town. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -85,7 +77,6 @@ \v 17 But how fortunate is a nation if its ruler comes from a noble family, \q2 if its leaders feast only at the proper times, \q2 and if they eat and drink only to be strong, not to become drunk. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,11 +84,9 @@ \q2 with the result that the roof sags and collapses. \q1 If they do not repair the roof, \q2 water will leak into the house when it rains. -\b \q1 \v 19 Eating food and drinking wine makes us laugh and be happy. \q2 If you have enough money, you can buy everything you need. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/11.usfm b/21-ECC/11.usfm index 1d8d7896..b5e32f5a 100644 --- a/21-ECC/11.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/11.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \q1 \v 2 Share some of what you have with seven or eight others, \q2 because you do not know when you will experience a disaster and will need their help. -\b \q1 \v 3 It is true that when clouds are full of water, \q2 they pour rain on the earth. @@ -21,13 +20,11 @@ \q2 they will know whether it is wise at that time to plant things or not. \q1 It is also true that if farmers look at the clouds and see that they are blowing from the west and will bring rain, \q2 they will not try to harvest their crops on that day. -\b \q1 \v 5 We do not know where the wind comes from or where it goes, \q2 and we do not know how bodies are formed in a woman's womb. \q1 Similarly, God is the one who makes everything, \q2 and we cannot fully understand what he does. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -46,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 But they should not forget that some day they will die \q2 and then they will never be able to see any light again, \q2 and they do not know what will happen to them after they die. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/12.usfm b/21-ECC/12.usfm index 082e1662..7965842c 100644 --- a/21-ECC/12.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/12.usfm @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 Then our corpses will decay and become dirt again, \q2 and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -61,7 +60,6 @@ \s5 \v 12 So, my son, pay careful attention to what I have written, and choose carefully what you read that others have written. This work of writing many books is endless. Trying to study them all will be an endless task. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/22-SNG/01.usfm b/22-SNG/01.usfm index 4c505457..0f8fccd3 100644 --- a/22-SNG/01.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/01.usfm @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ \c 1 \p \v 1 This is King Solomon's most beautiful song. -\b \sp The young woman speaking to her lover \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \q1 my brothers were angry with me, \q1 so they forced me to work out in the sunshine in the vineyards, \q2 so I was not able to take good care of my body. -\b \s5 \sp The woman speaking to her lover @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \q2 if you search for me and do not know where I will take my sheep, \q1 follow the tracks of the sheep. \q2 Then allow your young goats to graze near the shepherds' tents. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/22-SNG/02.usfm b/22-SNG/02.usfm index c401d04e..9688d091 100644 --- a/22-SNG/02.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/02.usfm @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 I hope he puts his left arm under my head \q2 and holds me close with his right arm. -\b \s5 \sp The woman speaking to the other women @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \q2 I want you to take an oath, while the does and gazelles are listening, that you will not \q1 disturb us while we are making love \q2 until we are ready to stop. -\b \s5 \sp The woman speaking to herself @@ -75,7 +73,6 @@ \q1 and their fragrance fills the air. \q2 You whom I love, get up; \q2 my beautiful one, come with me! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -90,7 +87,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 There are other men who ruin women as wild dogs ruin vineyards; \q2 do not allow those men to attack me. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/22-SNG/03.usfm b/22-SNG/03.usfm index 9df92612..78ec8a52 100644 --- a/22-SNG/03.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/03.usfm @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ \q2 solemnly promise me, while the does and gazelles are listening, that you will not \q1 disturb us while we are making love \q2 until we are ready to stop. -\b \s5 \sp The young woman speaking to herself diff --git a/22-SNG/04.usfm b/22-SNG/04.usfm index 76188951..9784f2b8 100644 --- a/22-SNG/04.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/04.usfm @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 My darling, you are completely beautiful; \q2 your body is perfectly formed! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -96,7 +95,6 @@ \v 15 You are like a fountain in a garden, \q2 like a spring of clear water \q2 that flows down from the mountains of Lebanon. -\b \sp The young woman speaking to her lover \q1 \v 16 I want the north wind and the south wind to come, diff --git a/22-SNG/05.usfm b/22-SNG/05.usfm index 68b1bbd9..15f4e69e 100644 --- a/22-SNG/05.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/05.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ \sp The woman's lover speaking to her \q1 Friends, enjoy making love; \q2 fully enjoy all that you do with each other. -\b \s5 diff --git a/22-SNG/06.usfm b/22-SNG/06.usfm index cdf5c0ee..462cdaa5 100644 --- a/22-SNG/06.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/06.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \v 3 I belong to the one who loves me, and the one who loves me belongs to me. \q2 He has pleasure in kissing my lips, \q2 like sheep enjoy grazing. -\b \s5 diff --git a/22-SNG/08.usfm b/22-SNG/08.usfm index d89b1476..5aa396eb 100644 --- a/22-SNG/08.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/08.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 Oh yes! He will put his left arm under my head, \q2 and he will hold me close with his right arm. -\b \s5 \sp The woman speaking to the other women @@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ \v 4 I want you to promise me, you women of Jerusalem, \q1 that you will not disturb us while we are making love \q2 until we are ready to stop." -\b \s5 @@ -81,7 +79,6 @@ \v 10 My chest was previously flat like a wall, \q2 but now my breasts are big like towers. \q1 So I am delightful to my beloved. -\b \s5 \sp The young woman speaking to himself diff --git a/23-ISA/01.usfm b/23-ISA/01.usfm index 3869f57d..10d90b6a 100644 --- a/23-ISA/01.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/01.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ \q2 and donkeys know who feeds them, \q1 but Israel does not know; \q2 Israel does not understand." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ \q1 They have left Yahweh, \q2 the Holy One of Israel. \q2 They have turned away from him. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -39,7 +37,6 @@ \q1 There are open wounds, cuts, and sores \q2 that have not been cleaned or bandaged, \q1 and no one has put oil on them to heal them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -58,7 +55,6 @@ \v 9 If Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, had not allowed a few of his people to survive, \q2 we would have all been destroyed, \q2 like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -100,7 +96,6 @@ \q2 try to cause people to do what is just. \q1 Stop people from mistreating others, \q2 and defend orphans and widows when people take them to court." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -155,7 +150,6 @@ \q2 You will have wise counselors like you had long ago. \q1 Then people will call your city a city where people act righteously, \q2 a faithful city." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -166,7 +160,6 @@ \q1 \v 28 But he will crush rebels and sinners, \q2 and those who forsake him will disappear. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/02.usfm b/23-ISA/02.usfm index cccddbfc..b520f5f0 100644 --- a/23-ISA/02.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/02.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q2 It will be as though it is the highest mountain, \q1 as though it has been raised up above all other hills, \q2 and people from all over the world will come there. -\b \s5 \p @@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ \q2 and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives. \q1 The armies of the nations will no longer fight against each other, \q2 and they will not even train men to fight in battles. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -61,7 +59,6 @@ \v 9 So now they will be humbled; \q2 Yahweh will disgrace them. \q2 Yahweh, do not forgive them! -\b \q1 \v 10 All you people should crawl into the caves in the rock cliffs! \q2 You should hide in pits in the ground @@ -71,7 +68,6 @@ \v 11 Yahweh will cause you people to no longer be arrogant \q2 and he will stop you from being proud. \q1 On that day people will praise and honor only Yahweh. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -118,7 +114,6 @@ \q1 They will try to escape from Yahweh, who is coming to punish them; \q2 They will fear what he will do because he is glorious and awesome, \q2 when he comes to come to terrify the people on the earth. -\b \q1 \v 22 So do not trust that people will save you, \q2 because they are as powerless as a person's breath. diff --git a/23-ISA/03.usfm b/23-ISA/03.usfm index 8c243556..3dc595dc 100644 --- a/23-ISA/03.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/03.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q2 people will fight against their neighbors. \q1 Young people will say shameful things against older people, \q2 and vulgar people will sneer at people whom others usually honor. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \q2 'No, I cannot help you, \q1 because I do not have any extra food or clothes in this house. \q2 So do not make me your leader!'" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 they do not try to hide their sins; they talk about them. \q1 Because of their sins, terrible things will certainly happen to them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -62,13 +59,11 @@ \q1 \v 11 But terrible things will happen to wicked people; \q2 Yahweh will pay them back for the evil things that they have done. -\b \q1 \v 12 Youths who have become leaders treat my people cruelly, \q2 and women rule over my people. \q1 My people, your leaders are misleading you; \q2 they are causing you to do all kinds of evil things. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/05.usfm b/23-ISA/05.usfm index 31b59c75..9925b9a8 100644 --- a/23-ISA/05.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/05.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ \q2 and he dug a winepress. \q1 Then he waited each year to harvest some good grapes, \q2 but the vines produced only sour grapes. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ \q1 I expected you to be doing good deeds, \q2 so it is disgusting that you were doing only evil deeds \q2 like the vineyard that produced only sour grapes! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,7 +40,6 @@ \q2 where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed. \q1 It will be a place where briers and thorns grow. \q2 And I will command that no rain will fall on it." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -67,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 but this land would not produce enough grapes to make even twenty liters of wine. \q2 When ten baskets of seed are sown on that land, \q1 that land will only produce one basket of grain at harvest time." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -103,7 +99,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 Then sheep and lambs will be able to find good grass to eat; \q2 they will pass through the ruined places to eat the grass. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -116,7 +111,6 @@ \q2 We want to see what you will do. \q1 You, the Holy One of Israel, should do what you are planning to do, \q2 because we want to know what it is." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -124,11 +118,9 @@ \q2 that evil is good, and that good is evil, \q1 that darkness is light and that light is darkness, \q2 that what is bitter is sweet and what is sweet is bitter. -\b \q1 \v 21 Terrible things will happen to those who think that they are wise \q2 and that they are very clever. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -139,7 +131,6 @@ \v 23 If people offer these corrupt judges money so they will not punish the wicked, \q2 they accept that money. \q2 These same judges punish innocent people. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -158,7 +149,6 @@ \q2 and the corpses of people will be scattered in the streets like manure. \q1 But even when that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry; \q2 he will be ready to punish his people again. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/08.usfm b/23-ISA/08.usfm index ba983777..b6a819d6 100644 --- a/23-ISA/08.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/08.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ \q1 Their army will spread over the land quickly, like an eagle, \q2 and they will cover your entire land! \q1 But I, your God, will be with you!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ \q2 and never get up again. \q1 They will experience great troubles; \q2 they will be captured by their enemies." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/09.usfm b/23-ISA/09.usfm index a6202d5f..34d5365b 100644 --- a/23-ISA/09.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/09.usfm @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ \q2 like a wild animal tears another animal apart and devours it. \q1 But even after that happened, Yahweh will still be very angry with them. \q2 He will be ready to strike them with his fist again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,7 +92,6 @@ \q2 and they all say things that are foolish. \q1 But Yahweh still is angry with them; \q2 he is ready to strike them with his fist again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -117,7 +115,6 @@ \q2 \v 21 Israelites of the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim will attack each other, \q2 and then they will both attack the people of Judah. -\b \q1 But even after that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry with them; \q2 He will be ready to strike them with his fist again. diff --git a/23-ISA/10.usfm b/23-ISA/10.usfm index e6225ef0..b39fbfd2 100644 --- a/23-ISA/10.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/10.usfm @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ \q2 we have taken away the treasures of other countries. \q1 The people were not like birds that would have flapped their wings or chirp loudly to protest about their eggs being stolen; \q2 the people did not object at all to their treasures being stolen.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -164,7 +163,6 @@ \v 32 The soldiers of Assyria will stop at the city of Nob outside Jerusalem. \q2 They will shake their fists \q2 as they threaten the people on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/11.usfm b/23-ISA/11.usfm index 22a53a0b..cea8dad4 100644 --- a/23-ISA/11.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/11.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \q2 the good things he does will be like a belt around his waist. \q1 He will always speak what is true; \q2 the true words he speaks will be like a sash around his waist. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/12.usfm b/23-ISA/12.usfm index 8a2672df..a9a7a42e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/12.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/12.usfm @@ -15,13 +15,11 @@ \q1 Yahweh our God, you enable us to be strong; \q2 you are the one about whom we sing; \q2 you have rescued us from our enemies." -\b \s5 \q1 \v 3 You, his people, will greatly rejoice because he has rescued you, \q2 like you enjoy drinking water from a fountain. -\b \p \v 4 At that time you will say, \q1 "We should thank Yahweh! We should praise him ! diff --git a/23-ISA/13.usfm b/23-ISA/13.usfm index 62a87628..2d044eb3 100644 --- a/23-ISA/13.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/13.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ \v 3 Yahweh says, "I have commanded those who are set apart to do this work for me— \q2 I have summoned the warriors whom I have chosen to punish the people of Babylon because I am very angry with them, \q2 and those soldiers will be very proud when they do that." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ \q2 from the most remote places on the earth. \q1 They are like weapons that Yahweh will use to punish the people with whom he is very angry, \q2 and to destroy the entire country of Babylonia. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -43,7 +41,6 @@ \q2 like a woman has when she is giving birth to a baby. \q1 You will look at each other helplessly, \q2 and it will show on your faces that you feel horror. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -55,7 +52,6 @@ \v 10 When that happens, none of the stars will shine. \q2 When the sun rises, it will be dark, \q1 and there will be no light from the moon at night. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -74,7 +70,6 @@ \q2 and the earth will also move out of its place. \q1 That will happen when I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, punish wicked people, \q2 when I show them that I am extremely angry with them. -\b \q1 \v 14 All the foreigners in Babylon will run around like deer that are being hunted, \q2 like sheep that do not have a shepherd. @@ -88,7 +83,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 Their little children will be dashed to pieces on the rocks while their parents watch; \q2 their enemies will steal everything valuable from their houses and will force their wives to sleep with them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -97,7 +91,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 With their arrows, the soldiers of Media will shoot the young men of Babylon; \q2 they will not even act mercifully toward infants or children!" -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/14.usfm b/23-ISA/14.usfm index 2c9d2de1..2c50e078 100644 --- a/23-ISA/14.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/14.usfm @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ \q2 the cyprus trees and the cedar trees in Lebanon will sing it: \q1 'You have been overthrown, \q2 and now no one comes to chop us down.' -\b \q1 \v 9 The dead people are all eagerly waiting for you to go to the place where they are. \q1 The spirits of the world leaders @@ -80,7 +79,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 Is this the man who tried to cause the world to become a desert, \q2 who conquered its cities and did not allow the people whom he captured to return to their homes?' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -92,7 +90,6 @@ \v 20 Your dead body will not be buried with them \q1 because you have destroyed your land \q2 and have caused your own people to be killed. -\b \q1 The descendants of wicked people like you will never be spoken of again." \s5 @@ -101,7 +98,6 @@ \q2 because of the sins that their ancestors committed! \q1 Do not allow them to become rulers, and conquer all the nations in the world, \q2 and fill the world with the cities that they rule!" -\b \q1 \v 22 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says: \q2 "I myself will cause Babylon to be conquered. @@ -117,7 +113,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 24 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has also solemnly promised this: -\b \q1 "The things that I have planned will surely happen. \q1 \v 25 When the army of Assyria is in my land of Israel, @@ -125,7 +120,6 @@ \q2 It will be as though I had trampled them on my mountains. \q1 My people will no longer be the slaves of the people of Assyria; \q2 It will be as though I had taken away the burdens that were on their shoulders. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -141,7 +135,6 @@ \s5 \p \v 28 I received this message from Yahweh during the year that King Ahaz died: -\b \q1 \v 29 Do not rejoice, all you people of Philistia, that the enemy army that attacked you has been defeated \q2 and that their king is dead. @@ -154,7 +147,6 @@ \q2 and the needy people will lie down safely, \q1 but I will cause you people of Philistia who are still alive \q2 to die from famine. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/15.usfm b/23-ISA/15.usfm index 1b5772d9..b4d3f00e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/15.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/15.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q2 people as far away as the town of Jahaz in the south will hear them wailing. \q1 Therefore the soldiers of Moab will tremble and cry out, \q2 and they will be very afraid. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/16.usfm b/23-ISA/16.usfm index 86c642e2..b25feb9c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/16.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/16.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 Allow those of us who are fleeing from Moab to stay with you; \q2 hide us from our enemies who want to destroy us! -\b \q1 Some day there will be no one to oppress us, \q2 and our enemies will stop destroying our land." @@ -31,7 +30,6 @@ \q2 As this man rules, he will be merciful and truthful. \q1 He will always do what is fair \q2 and quickly do what is righteous. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/17.usfm b/23-ISA/17.usfm index ada1e971..b085207b 100644 --- a/23-ISA/17.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/17.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ \q1 There will be only two or three olives in the top branches, \q2 or four or five olives on the other branches." \q1 That is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says. -\b \q1 \v 7 Then at that time, you people of Israel will trust in God, your creator, \q2 the Holy One of Israel. @@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ \q2 and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, \q1 at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. \q2 All that you will get is much of agony and suffering. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/18.usfm b/23-ISA/18.usfm index adb0d11b..3eb2469c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/18.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/18.usfm @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ \q2 People everywhere are afraid of those people, \q1 because they conquer and destroy other nations; \q2 they are people who live in a land that rivers divide. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ \v 6 All the soldiers in that nation's army will be killed, \q2 and their corpses will lie in the fields for vultures to eat their flesh in the summer. \q1 Then wild animals will chew on their bones all during the winter." -\b \p \v 7 At that time, the people of the nation that rivers divide will take gifts to Yahweh in Jerusalem. \q1 Those people are tall and have smooth skins; people everywhere are afraid of those people, diff --git a/23-ISA/19.usfm b/23-ISA/19.usfm index f5327a0d..f4d63914 100644 --- a/23-ISA/19.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/19.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q2 riding on a fast-moving cloud. \q1 The idols in Egypt will tremble when I appear, \q2 and the people of Egypt will be extremely afraid. -\b \q1 \v 2 I will cause the people of Egypt to fight against each other: \q2 men will fight against their brothers, @@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 Then I will enable someone who will treat them very cruelly to become their king. \q1 That is what I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, say. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 They will all despair \q2 and be very discouraged. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -61,7 +58,6 @@ \q2 The advice that they gave to the king was worthless. \q1 Why do they continue to tell the king that they are wise, \q2 that they are descendants of wise kings who lived long ago ? -\b \q1 \v 12 King, where are your wise advisors now? \q2 If you had any wise advisors, they could tell you what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has planned to do to Egypt! diff --git a/23-ISA/21.usfm b/23-ISA/21.usfm index e795881f..225c0b7c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/21.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/21.usfm @@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ \q1 An army will soon come from the southern Judean wilderness to invade that land; \q2 they are an army that causes their enemies to be terrified, \q2 an army that will come sweeping through the wilderness from a terrible land. -\b \q1 \v 2 Yahweh showed me a terrifying vision: \q1 In the vision I saw an army \q2 that will betray people and steal their possessions after they conquer them. \q1 Yahweh said, "You armies from Elam and Media, surround Babylon and prepare to attack it! \q2 I will cause the groaning and suffering that Babylon caused to cease!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -27,7 +25,6 @@ \v 4 My heart shakes within me, and I tremble with fear. \q2 Early evening is my favorite time of day, \q2 but now terror has taken over and I am afraid. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -57,7 +54,6 @@ \q2 I called out to him, and he answered, \q1 'Babylon has been destroyed! \q2 All the idols in Babylon lie in pieces on the ground!'" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -89,7 +85,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 They are fleeing in order not to be killed by their enemies' swords \q2 and not to be shot in battles by arrows. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/22.usfm b/23-ISA/22.usfm index 707b5251..13eb1608 100644 --- a/23-ISA/22.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/22.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 4 That is why I said, "Allow me to cry alone; \q2 do not try to comfort me about my people being slaughtered." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ \q2 in the valley where I received this vision. \q1 It will be a time when our city walls will be battered down \q2 and the people's cries for help will be heard in the mountains. -\b \q1 \v 6 The armies from Elam and Kir in Media will attack, \q2 driving chariots and carrying shields. @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \v 11 Between the walls of the city you will build a reservoir to store water from the old pool. \q1 But you will never request help from the one who made the city; \q2 you have never depended on Yahweh, who planned this city long ago. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/23.usfm b/23-ISA/23.usfm index 0b81fe0f..843baf4c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/23.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/23.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \q1 You sailors on ships from Tarshish, \q2 weep, because the harbor of Tyre and all the houses in the city have been destroyed. \q2 The reports that you heard in the Island of Cyprus about Tyre are true. -\b \q1 \v 2 You people who live along the coast, you merchants of the city of Sidon, mourn silently. \q2 Your sailors went across the seas to make you rich, there in Tyre. @@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ \v 3 They sailed across deep seas \q2 to buy grain in Egypt, grain from the Valley of Shihor. \q2 This wealth came down the Nile River, and you, Tyre, were the place where the people of all nations traded. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -25,7 +23,6 @@ \q1 Tyre is like a woman who is saying, \q2 "Now it is as though I have not given birth to any children, \q2 or raised any sons or daughters." -\b \q1 \v 5 When the people of Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, \q2 they will grieve very much. @@ -47,7 +44,6 @@ \v 9 It was Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, who did it; \q2 he did it in order to cause you people in Tyre to not be proud anymore, \q2 to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +60,6 @@ \q2 "You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; \q1 even if you flee to the island of Cyprus, \q2 you will not escape from troubles; you will have no peace." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -74,7 +69,6 @@ \q1 They built dirt ramps to the top of the walls of the city of Babylon; \q2 then they entered the city and tore down the palaces \q2 and caused the city to become a heap of rubble. -\b \q1 \v 14 So wail, you sailors on the ships of Tarshish, \q2 because the harbor in Tyre where your ships stop is destroyed! diff --git a/23-ISA/24.usfm b/23-ISA/24.usfm index f6fbf6ab..7aea6164 100644 --- a/23-ISA/24.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/24.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \v 3 Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; \q2 everything valuable will be destroyed. \q1 That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it. -\b \q1 \v 4 Everything on the earth will dry up and die; \q2 its important people will become weak and unimportant. @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ \q2 there will only be a few people still alive, \q1 like what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left, \q2 or when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left on the vines. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -79,7 +77,6 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 16 We will hear people in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to Yahweh, the truly righteous one. -\b \q1 But now, I am very sad. \q2 Weep for me, because I have become thin and weak. \q1 Terrible things are happening! @@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ \q2 will fall into deep pits, \q1 and those who climb out of the pits \q2 will be caught by traps. -\b \q1 The sky will split open and torrents of rain will fall; \q2 the foundations of the earth will shake. @@ -108,7 +104,6 @@ \q2 it will shake like a hammock in a windstorm. \q1 It will collapse and not be able to rise again, \q2 because the guilt of the people who rebel against Yahweh is very great. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/25.usfm b/23-ISA/25.usfm index 4f680145..73fce936 100644 --- a/23-ISA/25.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/25.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ \q1 But you cause the noisy cries of people from foreign nations to be quiet. \q2 Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead, \q2 you stop merciless people from singing songs about how great they are. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -47,7 +46,6 @@ \q1 Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died. \q2 And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and us his people. \q1 That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it! -\b \s5 \p @@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ \q2 We trusted in him, and he has rescued us! \q1 Yahweh, in whom we trusted, has done it; \q2 we should rejoice because he has saved us!" -\b \q1 \v 10 Yahweh will protect and bless Jerusalem. \q2 But he will crush the people in the land of Moab; diff --git a/23-ISA/26.usfm b/23-ISA/26.usfm index 36393392..415af95f 100644 --- a/23-ISA/26.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/26.usfm @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ \q1 He causes those cities to collapse into the dust. \q1 \v 6 When that happens, poor and oppressed people will trample on the ruins. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ \q1 Show them that you are very eager to help your people. \q2 If your enemies would realize that, they would be ashamed; \q1 make your fire burn them up because they are your enemies. -\b \q1 \v 12 Yahweh, we desire that you will allow things to go well for us; \q2 all that we have done is what you have enabled us to do. @@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ \v 15 Yahweh, you have enabled our nation to become great; \q2 we are more people now, and we have more land, \q1 so we thank you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -105,7 +102,6 @@ \q1 His light will be like dew that falls on you, his people who have died, \q2 you who are now in the place where the dead people are; \q2 he will cause you to live again. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/27.usfm b/23-ISA/27.usfm index 2f506978..7ed45276 100644 --- a/23-ISA/27.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/27.usfm @@ -25,14 +25,12 @@ \q1 \v 5 unless they request me to protect them; \q2 I strongly invite them to make peace with me!" -\b \s5 \q1 \v 6 There will be a time when the descendants of Jacob will prosper like a plant that has good roots; \q2 they will be like trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; \q2 what they do will bless all the people in the world. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/28.usfm b/23-ISA/28.usfm index eab0ed66..acbbc222 100644 --- a/23-ISA/28.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/28.usfm @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ \q2 when they decide people's cases. \q1 He will enable the soldiers who stand at the city gates \q2 to strongly defend the city when our enemies attack it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 8 All their tables are covered with their vomit; \q2 filth is everywhere. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -60,7 +58,6 @@ \v 10 He continually tells us, 'Do this, do that;' \q2 first he tells us one rule, then another rule, \q2 he tells us only one line at a time." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -118,7 +115,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 When the flood comes, it will pass through and over you like the river when it overflows its banks and causes flooding everywhere. \q1 When you finally understand the message of Yahweh, it will cause you to be terrified, not comforted. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -138,7 +134,6 @@ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to w \q1 So do not ridicule what I say anymore, \q2 because if you do that, \q2 he will punish you even more severely. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/29.usfm b/23-ISA/29.usfm index 437706d7..aac56d59 100644 --- a/23-ISA/29.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/29.usfm @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Mount Zion; \q2 they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, \q2 they will realize that they have not succeeded. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets from understanding and telling you his messages, \q2 it is as though he had made you go fast asleep. -\b \s5 \p @@ -95,7 +93,6 @@ \q2 'You did not make me!' \q1 A jar should never say, \q2 'The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!'" -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/30.usfm b/23-ISA/30.usfm index 11c2f8c4..b90b8741 100644 --- a/23-ISA/30.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/30.usfm @@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ \q2 all of you will flee. \q1 Only a few of you will be left, like a single flagpole on top of a mountain, \q2 or like one single signal flag on a hilltop." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -126,7 +125,6 @@ \s5 \v 25 At that time, when your enemies have been slaughtered and their towers have collapsed, there will be streams flowing down every hill and mountain in Judah. \v 26 The moon will seem to shine as brightly as the sun, and the sun will seem to shine seven times as brightly as previously. That is what it will be like when Yahweh causes the suffering of his people to cease; it will be as though he is putting bandages on their wounds and healing them. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/31.usfm b/23-ISA/31.usfm index a8f7cbd9..c7e868ea 100644 --- a/23-ISA/31.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/31.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q2 he will also strike you who thought that you would be helped, \q2 and you and they will stumble and fall down; \q2 all of you will die together. -\b \s5 \p @@ -43,11 +42,9 @@ \q2 like a mother bird hovers over the baby birds in her nest. \q1 He will defend the city \q2 and rescue it from its enemies." -\b \p \v 6 My people, even though you have greatly rebelled against Yahweh, return to him. \v 7 When you do that, each of you will throw away the idols that you have made in sin, idols that are covered with silver and gold. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/32.usfm b/23-ISA/32.usfm index 8597173b..59de37aa 100644 --- a/23-ISA/32.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/32.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q2 and a refuge from the storm. \q1 They will be like streams of water in the desert, \q2 like the shade under a huge rock in a very hot and dry land. -\b \q1 \v 3 When that happens, those leaders will enable people who have not understood God's truth to understand it, \q2 and they will enable those who have not paid attention to God's truth to pay attention to it. diff --git a/23-ISA/33.usfm b/23-ISA/33.usfm index 4102f68e..941b0662 100644 --- a/23-ISA/33.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/33.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ \v 4 And after our enemies have been defeated, \q1 we, your people, will take away all our enemies' possessions, \q2 like caterpillars and locusts strip off all the leaves of plants. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ \q2 he will fully protect your possessions, \q2 he will enable you to be wise and to know all that you need to know; \q1 and revering Yahweh will be like a valuable treasure that he will give to you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -59,7 +57,6 @@ \q2 The cedar trees in Lebanon are drying up and decaying. \q1 The Plain of Sharon along the coast is now a desert plain. \q2 There are no more leaves on the trees in the areas of Bashan and Carmel. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -75,7 +72,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 You people who live far away and you people who live nearby, \q2 pay attention to what I have done and realize that I am very powerful." -\b \q1 \v 14 The sinners in Jerusalem will tremble because they are very afraid; \q2 godless people will be terrified. @@ -94,7 +90,6 @@ \q2 they will find places to be safe in the caves in the mountains. \q1 They will have plenty of food \q2 and water. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -106,7 +101,6 @@ \q2 Those men who counted our towers are gone! \q1 \v 19 Those arrogant people who spoke a language that we could not understand are no longer here!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -128,7 +122,6 @@ \q2 he is the one who gives us laws, \q1 and he is our king. \q2 He will rescue us. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/34.usfm b/23-ISA/34.usfm index e794ecaf..858053a2 100644 --- a/23-ISA/34.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/34.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ \q2 as well as young calves and big bulls. \q1 The ground will be soaked with blood, \q2 and the dirt will be covered with the fat of those animals. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -79,7 +78,6 @@ \q2 and when the eggs hatch, the mother birds will cover them with their wings. \q1 There will also be hawks there, \q2 each with its mate. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/35.usfm b/23-ISA/35.usfm index 84c5000a..a06ed59f 100644 --- a/23-ISA/35.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/35.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q2 because our God is going to come to get revenge on his enemies; \q1 he will pay them back for what they have done, \q2 and he will rescue you." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ \v 7 The very hot and dry ground will become a pool of water, \q2 and springs will provide water for the dry land. \q1 Grass and reeds and papyrus will grow in places where the jackals lived previously. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/37.usfm b/23-ISA/37.usfm index b9ad9b94..20ec44ad 100644 --- a/23-ISA/37.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/37.usfm @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ \v 25 We have dug wells in many countries and drunk water from them. \q1 And by marching through the streams of Egypt, \q2 we dried them all up!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ \q1 They are as frail as grass and plants in the fields, \q2 as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses \q2 and is scorched by the hot east wind. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -101,7 +99,6 @@ \q2 and an iron bit in your mouth in order that I can take you where I wish, \q1 and I will force you to return to your own country, \q2 on the same road on which you came here, without conquering Jerusalem.'" -\b \s5 \p @@ -119,7 +116,6 @@ \v 32 A small number of my people will survive, \q2 and they will spread out from Jerusalem. \p That will happen because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is desiring very much to accomplish it." -\b \s5 \p @@ -134,13 +130,11 @@ \q2 on the same road on which he came here. \q1 He will not enter this city! \p That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \s5 \q1 \v 35 For the sake of my own reputation and because of what I promised King David, who served me well, \q2 I will defend this city and prevent it from being destroyed.'" -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/38.usfm b/23-ISA/38.usfm index d9593669..ceb54ce3 100644 --- a/23-ISA/38.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/38.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ \q2 and moaned like a dove. \q1 My eyes became tired looking up toward heaven for help. \q2 I cried out, 'Yahweh, help me, because I am distressed!' -\b \q1 \v 15 But there was really nothing that I could say and ask him to reply to me, \q2 because it was Yahweh who sent this illness. @@ -78,7 +77,6 @@ \v 19 Only people who are still alive, like I am, can praise you. \q1 Fathers tell their children how you are faithful, \q2 and if I remain alive, I will do the same thing. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/40.usfm b/23-ISA/40.usfm index b05ba564..06418c97 100644 --- a/23-ISA/40.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/40.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \v 5 If you do that, it will become known that Yahweh is glorious, \q2 and all people will realize it at the same time. \q1 Those things will surely happen because it is Yahweh who has said it." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \q1 \v 8 The grass withers and the flowers dry up, \q2 but what our God promises will last forever." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ \q1 He carries them close to his chest \q2 and he gently leads the female sheep \q2 that are nursing their young lambs. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,7 +78,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 Has Yahweh ever consulted anyone else to get advice? \q2 Does he need someone to tell him what is right to do and how to act justly? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -96,7 +92,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 The nations of the world are completely insignificant to him; \q2 he considers that they are worthless and less than nothing. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -111,7 +106,6 @@ \q2 so he selects a piece of wood that will not rot, \q1 and he gives it to a craftsman \q2 to carve an idol that will not fall over! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -134,7 +128,6 @@ \q2 but then he gets rid of them \q2 as though they withered when he blew on them, \q1 like chaff that is blown away by the wind. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -148,7 +141,6 @@ \q2 he calls each one by its name. \q1 Because he is extremely powerful, \q2 all of the stars are there when he calls out their names. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/41.usfm b/23-ISA/41.usfm index ecce2304..6b08bd10 100644 --- a/23-ISA/41.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/41.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ \q2 be silent in front of me while I ask you some questions! \q1 Then you can be courageous and talk to me. \q2 We will meet together and decide which one of us is right. -\b \q1 \v 2 Who has raised up this king to come from the east? \q1 He is the one who does what is right with every step. He hands nations over to him and he defeats them, @@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ \q1 Do not be discouraged, because I am your God. \q2 I will enable you to be strong, and I will help you; \q2 I will hold you up with my powerful arm by which I will rescue you, and I will be completely right to do so! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -98,7 +96,6 @@ \q2 and a strong wind will blow them away. \q1 When that happens, you will rejoice about what I have done for you; \q2 you will praise me, Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/42.usfm b/23-ISA/42.usfm index 76050cb6..40ead646 100644 --- a/23-ISA/42.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/42.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q2 \v 4 He will not become exhausted or discouraged all during the time that he is causing things to be done justly throughout the earth. \q1 Even people living on the islands in the oceans will confidently wait for him to teach them his laws." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \v 7 For you will enable blind people to see, \q2 you will free those who are in prison \q2 and release those who are in dark dungeons. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -75,7 +73,6 @@ \q2 he will show that he is very angry. \q1 He will shout a battle cry, \q2 and then he will defeat all his enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -131,7 +128,6 @@ \q1 They have been captured easily, \q2 because there was no one to protect them; \q1 there was no one to say that they should be allowed to return home. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/43.usfm b/23-ISA/43.usfm index b9bc4371..d6bd8be9 100644 --- a/23-ISA/43.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/43.usfm @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ \q2 and you have not poured out to me the sweet-smelling fat from any animal sacrifices. \q1 But you have burdened me by all the sins that you have committed, \q2 and made me weary because of all your iniquities. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/44.usfm b/23-ISA/44.usfm index cbccc256..dafb71c9 100644 --- a/23-ISA/44.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/44.usfm @@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ \q1 They should stand in front of God in a courtroom, \q2 and when they hear what he says, they will be terrified, \q2 and they will all be disgraced. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -153,7 +152,6 @@ \q2 that I have blown away. \q1 Return to me \q2 because I have rescued you." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/45.usfm b/23-ISA/45.usfm index 927b62ad..c30095e1 100644 --- a/23-ISA/45.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/45.usfm @@ -43,12 +43,10 @@ \v 7 I created the light and the darkness. \q2 I cause there to be peace and I cause there to be disasters. \q2 I, Yahweh, do all those things." -\b \q1 \v 8 Yahweh also says, "Just like the rain falls on the earth to help it, \q2 I will help my people and rescue them; I will cause them to be treated justly. \q1 I, Yahweh, am the one who will cause both of those things to happen. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ \q2 'Why are you causing me to be born?' \q1 or if it said to its mother, \q2 'The result of your labor pains will be useless.'" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -89,7 +86,6 @@ \q2 and he will free my people who have been exiled. \q1 And he will do it without my rewarding him!" \q2 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says. -\b \s5 \p @@ -103,7 +99,6 @@ \q2 'God is with you \q1 and he is the only God; \q2 there is no other God.'" -\b \q1 \v 15 God, although we cannot see you, \q2 you are the one to whom we Israelite people belong, the one who saves us. @@ -116,7 +111,6 @@ \v 17 But you, Yahweh, will rescue us, your Israelite people, \q2 and we will be free forever. \q1 Never again, during all the future, will we again be humiliated and disgraced. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -136,7 +130,6 @@ \q2 I did not tell them \q1 'It will be useless for you to seek for me!' \q2 I, Yahweh, speak only what is true and what is right. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -155,7 +148,6 @@ \q2 because I am the only God; there is no other God. \q1 I am a God who acts righteously and saves people; \q2 there is no other one who does these things. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/46.usfm b/23-ISA/46.usfm index d7e14424..81693021 100644 --- a/23-ISA/46.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/46.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \v 2 Gods and animals are all bowed down; \q2 the gods can save neither themselves nor the beasts of burden; \q2 the gods themselves are going into exile! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ \q2 until it is as though your nation is an old man with gray hair. \q1 I caused you to become a nation, \q2 and I will sustain you and rescue you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -45,7 +43,6 @@ \q1 It cannot move! \q1 And when someone prays to it, it does not answer. \q2 So obviously it cannot rescue anyone from his troubles! -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/47.usfm b/23-ISA/47.usfm index 36ff7600..0ecc353c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/47.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/47.usfm @@ -19,11 +19,9 @@ \q1 \v 3 You will be naked and very ashamed. \q2 I will have vengeance on you and will not pity you." -\b \q1 \v 4 The one who frees us people of Judah, whom we call 'Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies,' \q2 is the Holy One of Israel. -\b \q1 \v 5 Yahweh says, "You people of Babylon, \q2 sit silently in the darkness, @@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ \q2 it is as though our city will be the queen of the world forever!' \q1 But you did not think about the things that you were doing, \q2 or think about what would result. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,7 +67,6 @@ \q2 and you will not be able to pay any magician to keep those things from happening. \q1 A catastrophe will happen to you suddenly, \q2 something that you will not realize is about to happen. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/48.usfm b/23-ISA/48.usfm index c2b43a74..4d07e059 100644 --- a/23-ISA/48.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/48.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ \v 6 You have heard those things that I predicted, \q2 and now you have seen that they have all occurred, \q1 so why do you not admit it? -\b \q1 Now I will tell you new things, \q2 things that you have not known previously. \q1 @@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ \q2 I stretched out the sky with my hand. \q1 And when I tell the stars to appear, \q2 they all do what I tell them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -89,14 +87,12 @@ \q2 I have summoned Cyrus. \q1 I have appointed him, \q2 and he will accomplish everything that he attempts to do. -\b \s5 \p \v 16 Come close to me and listen to what I say. \q1 Long ago I told you plainly what would happen, \q2 and when those things occurred, I was causing them to happen." -\b \q1 And now Yahweh the Lord and his Spirit have sent me, the prophet Isaiah, to give you a message. \s5 @@ -118,7 +114,6 @@ \q2 which no one can count. \q1 I would not have needed to destroy them; \q2 the country of Israel would not have been destroyed. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -134,7 +129,6 @@ \v 21 They were not thirsty when he led them through the desert, \q1 because he split open the rock \q2 and caused water to gush out for them to drink.' -\b \q1 \v 22 But things will not go well like that for wicked people," says Yahweh. diff --git a/23-ISA/49.usfm b/23-ISA/49.usfm index 0b4651a5..b7d8041b 100644 --- a/23-ISA/49.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/49.usfm @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ \q2 by bringing the descendants of Jacob back to worship me again; \q1 I also want you to be like a light for the non-Israelites; \q2 I want you to take my message about how to be saved to people all over the world." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -84,21 +83,18 @@ \v 12 My people will return from far away; \q2 some will come from the north, some from the west, \q2 some from southern Egypt." -\b \q1 \v 13 Because of what Yahweh has promised to do, \q1 everything should shout joyfully— \q2 the sky and the earth and the mountains should sing, \q2 because Yahweh comforts his people, \q1 and he will pity those who are suffering. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 14 The people of Jerusalem say, \q1 "Yahweh has abandoned us; \q2 he has forgotten about us." -\b \q1 \v 15 But Yahweh replies, \q1 "That is not true! Can a woman forget the infant that she is nursing? @@ -119,7 +115,6 @@ \q1 As surely as I live, \q2 they will be with you for you to show to people \q2 like a bride shows her wedding ornaments! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -140,7 +135,6 @@ \q2 We were left here alone; \q1 so we do not know where all these children have come from! \q2 Who raised them?'" -\b \s5 \p @@ -157,7 +151,6 @@ \q2 and lick the dust off your feet. \q1 When that happens, you will know that I am Yahweh; \q2 and those who trust in me will never be disappointed." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/50.usfm b/23-ISA/50.usfm index 03d8b134..e8e05be8 100644 --- a/23-ISA/50.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/50.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 I cause the sky to become dark, \q2 as though it was wearing black clothes because it was mourning because someone had died." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ \q2 so no one will be able to condemn me. \q1 All those who accuse me will disappear \q2 like old clothes that have been eaten by moths. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/51.usfm b/23-ISA/51.usfm index c7dad085..076c3359 100644 --- a/23-ISA/51.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/51.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \q2 it will be like the garden of Yahweh. \q1 All the people there will be joyful and happy; \q2 they will thank me and sing. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ \q2 and people on the earth will die like flies. \q1 But I will rescue you, and you will remain free forever, \q2 and everyone will know what I do and I will always do what is right. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -85,7 +83,6 @@ \q2 Their being joyful forever will be like a crown on their heads. \q1 They will not be sad or mourn anymore; \q2 they will be completely joyful and happy. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -148,7 +145,6 @@ \q2 they are as helpless as an antelope that has been caught in a net. \q1 What has happened to them is because Yahweh has been very angry with them; \q2 he has rebuked them severely. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/52.usfm b/23-ISA/52.usfm index 27b6b45c..91471b67 100644 --- a/23-ISA/52.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/52.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \q2 no one paid to make that happen. \q1 So now you will be brought back, \q2 and no money will be paid to anyone for your release." -\b \s5 \p @@ -58,12 +57,10 @@ \q2 but the people who are there now should start to sing joyfully, \q1 because Yahweh will encourage his people; \q2 he will set his people free and bring them back to Jerusalem. -\b \q1 \v 10 Yahweh will show all the nations that he is holy and powerful. \q1 People in the most remote places on earth will know \q2 that he has rescued his people. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/53.usfm b/23-ISA/53.usfm index 82ee4b5e..179798eb 100644 --- a/23-ISA/53.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/53.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ \q1 He will endure much pain, and he will suffer much. \q2 Because his face will be very disfigured, people will not want to look at him; he will not even look human any more; \q1 people will despise him and think that he is not worth paying any attention to. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/54.usfm b/23-ISA/54.usfm index 3591632d..88e140ae 100644 --- a/23-ISA/54.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/54.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ \q2 because soon you and your descendants will spread all over the land. \q1 They will force the people of other nations to leave where they are, \q2 and you will live again in the cities that people had previously abandoned. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ \q1 But I will act mercifully toward you \q2 and I will faithfully love you forever. \q2 That is what I, Yahweh, your rescuer, say to you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ \q1 and I will not cancel my covenant \q2 to cause things to go well for you. \q2 That is what I, Yahweh, who acts mercifully, say. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -91,7 +88,6 @@ \v 15 If any army attacks you, \q2 it will not be because I have incited them to do that, \q1 and you will defeat anyone who attacks you. -\b \q1 \v 16 Think about this: \q2 Blacksmiths fan the coals to make a very hot flame diff --git a/23-ISA/56.usfm b/23-ISA/56.usfm index b87a8bfe..3aac8963 100644 --- a/23-ISA/56.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/56.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \q1 I will bless those who keep sacred my Sabbath days, \q2 and who do not do any work on those days, \q2 and who refrain from doing anything that is evil. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/57.usfm b/23-ISA/57.usfm index 2bdece4b..4451cd8b 100644 --- a/23-ISA/57.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/57.usfm @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ \v 2 and now they have peace. \q1 They lived righteously, \q2 and now they rest peacefully in their graves. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ \q2 but you never said, 'It is useless for us to do that.' \q1 You found new strength for worshiping idols, \q2 so you continued to do so. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/58.usfm b/23-ISA/58.usfm index afc5e251..de03bffe 100644 --- a/23-ISA/58.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/58.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q2 but you did not notice our doing that. \q1 We humbled ourselves, \q2 but you did not pay any attention!' -\b \q1 I will tell you why I did not pay attention. \q2 It is because when you fast, \q1 you do it only to please yourselves, @@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ \q1 and you wear rough clothes and cover your heads with ashes like people do when they are grieving. \q1 That is what you do when you are fasting, \q2 but do you really think that will please me? -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Then you will call out to me, \q2 and I will quickly answer and say, 'I am here to help you.' -\b \q1 Stop oppressing people; \q2 stop falsely accusing people; \q2 and stop saying evil things about people. @@ -90,7 +87,6 @@ \q2 they will build houses on top of the old foundations. \q1 People will say that you are the ones who are repairing the holes in the city walls, \q2 and who are repairing the streets where people live. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/59.usfm b/23-ISA/59.usfm index 89d1bb66..bc27a814 100644 --- a/23-ISA/59.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/59.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ \v 8 You do not know how to act peacefully or to treat others fairly. \q1 You always are dishonest, \q2 and those who imitate your behavior never have any peace within themselves. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ \q2 but nothing happens. \q1 We want God to rescue us, \q2 but it seems that he is far away. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -88,7 +86,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 No one tells the truth, \q2 and people try to ruin the reputations of those who quit doing evil. -\b \q1 Yahweh looked around, and he saw that no one was doing what is just; \q2 he was very displeased. @@ -111,7 +108,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 When that happens, people everywhere, from the east to the west, will respect and honor Yahweh, \q2 because he will come like a rushing river that is pushed along by the strong wind that Yahweh sent. -\b \q1 \v 20 And Yahweh says that he will come to Jerusalem to free his people; \q2 he will come to rescue those in Judah who have stopped doing sinful things. diff --git a/23-ISA/60.usfm b/23-ISA/60.usfm index 91e7e916..00a4d969 100644 --- a/23-ISA/60.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/60.usfm @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 People of all people groups will see that he is very great by seeing what he has done for you, \q2 and kings will come to see the wonderful things that have happened to you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ \q2 They will bring rams from Nebaioth for you to sacrifice on my altars, \q1 and I will accept them happily. \q2 At that time I will cause my temple to be very beautifully decorated. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \q2 When your people come, they will bring with them all the valuable possessions that they have acquired, \q1 and they will do that to honor me, Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, \q2 because I will have greatly honored you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -83,7 +80,6 @@ \q1 They will say that your city on Mount Zion \q2 is the City of Yahweh, \q2 where the Holy One of Israel lives. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -109,7 +105,6 @@ \q2 and people will no longer destroy your land and drive you out of it. \q1 The people in the city will be safe, \q2 and everyone there will praise me. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/61.usfm b/23-ISA/61.usfm index bdaadabd..815562ce 100644 --- a/23-ISA/61.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/61.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ \q1 They will be called 'people who continually do what is right, \q2 people who are like tall oak trees that Yahweh has planted' \q1 to show others that he is very great. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ \q2 but now you will have many good things; \q1 you will be happy because you will be in your land again, \q2 and you will rejoice forever. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -61,7 +59,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Their descendants will be honored by people of other nations; their children will be honored by all the other nations. \q2 Everyone who sees them will know that they are a nation that I, Yahweh, have blessed." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/62.usfm b/23-ISA/62.usfm index 57353a67..0e2a5515 100644 --- a/23-ISA/62.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/62.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ \q2 until they are rescued from their oppressors, \q1 until that becomes as apparent to everyone as the dawn every morning, \q2 until people can see it as clearly as they see a torch shining brightly at night. -\b \q1 \v 2 Some day the people of many nations will know that Yahweh has rescued you, his people. \q2 Their kings will see that your city is very great. @@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 And tell Yahweh that he should not rest \q2 until he causes Jerusalem to be a city that is famous and admired throughout the world. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ \q2 and you will be the ones who will praise me, Yahweh, while you eat the bread made from the grain. \q1 Inside the courtyards of my temple, \q2 you yourselves will drink the wine made from the grapes that you harvested." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -65,7 +62,6 @@ \q1 Cause the road to become smooth; \q2 clear off all the stones; \q1 set up signal flags to help the people groups to see the road to Jerusalem. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/63.usfm b/23-ISA/63.usfm index 405d15d1..4697cec8 100644 --- a/23-ISA/63.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/63.usfm @@ -9,11 +9,9 @@ \q1 Who is this who is wearing beautiful robes?" \q2 He replies, "It is I, Yahweh, declaring that I have defeated your enemies, \q1 and I am able to rescue you!" -\b \q1 \v 2 I ask him, "What are those red spots on your clothes? \q2 It appears that you have been treading on grapes to make wine." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ \q2 and we caused his Holy Spirit to be sad. \q1 So he became like an enemy \q2 who fought against us. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/65.usfm b/23-ISA/65.usfm index eaad3c6b..f90f5b0d 100644 --- a/23-ISA/65.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/65.usfm @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ \q1 \v 10 Then all the land from the Plain of Sharon near the Mediterranean Sea and as far east as the Valley of Achor near Jericho will become pastureland, \q2 where their cattle and sheep will rest. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ \v 19 I will rejoice about Jerusalem, \q2 and I will be delighted with my people. \q1 People will no longer weep or cry because of being distressed. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/66.usfm b/23-ISA/66.usfm index 381db66d..f4ae96eb 100644 --- a/23-ISA/66.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/66.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ \v 2 I have created everything; \q2 all things exist because I made them. \q1 That is true because I, Yahweh, have said it. -\b \q1 The people I am most pleased with are those who are humble, \q2 who patiently endure it when they suffer, \q2 and who tremble when they hear me rebuking them. @@ -99,7 +98,6 @@ \q2 like women care for the babies that they nurse. \q1 \v 13 I will comfort you people in Jerusalem like mothers comfort their children." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -119,7 +117,6 @@ \q1 \v 16 It is as though Yahweh had a big sword, \q2 and he will judge and execute many people. -\b \s5 \p @@ -134,7 +131,6 @@ \s5 \v 20 Then they will bring back here your relatives who have been exiled, like the offerings that my Israelite people used to bring in the correct manner to the temple. They will travel to Jerusalem, where my holy mountain is; they will come on horses and in chariots, in wagons, on mules and on camels. \v 21 I solemnly promise that I will appoint some of them to be priests, and others to do other work in my temple. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/02.usfm b/24-JER/02.usfm index b9fc18bf..763afcb3 100644 --- a/24-JER/02.usfm +++ b/24-JER/02.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ \v 9 So I, Yahweh, will accuse you in court. \q1 In future years, I will also bring your children and your grandchildren to trial! \q1 That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said that it will happen. -\b \q1 \v 10 If you go west to the island of Cyprus, \q2 or if you go east to Kedar land, @@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ \q1 you have rejected me, the one who is like a fountain where you can obtain fresh water, \q2 and you are worshiping gods that are like pits in the ground \q2 that are cracked and which are not able to hold any water. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -98,7 +96,6 @@ \q1 When I do that, you will realize that bitter and evil things will happen to you because you have forsaken me, Yahweh, your God, \q2 and you no longer have an awesome respect for me. \q1 That will certainly happen because I, the Lord, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies in heaven, have said it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -134,7 +131,6 @@ \q1 I told you to stop doing that but you said that you could not stop, \q2 and you said that you loved those foreign gods \q2 and had to worship them! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -151,7 +147,6 @@ \q2 Why do you not plead with them to rescue you \q2 when you experience disasters? \q1 For you have as many gods as you have cities and towns in Judah! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -162,7 +157,6 @@ \q2 but you did not learn anything from my doing that. \q1 Instead you have killed many of the prophets that I sent to you, \q2 like fierce lions kill other animals. -\b \p \v 31 You people of Israel, pay attention to what I say. \q1 I have certainly never abandoned you in a desert; @@ -188,7 +182,6 @@ \q2 I am sure that Yahweh will not be angry with me for much longer.' \q1 But I will punish you severely \q2 for claiming that you have not sinned. -\b \q1 \v 36 Previously you requested the army of Assyria to help you, \q2 but they were not able to help you. diff --git a/24-JER/03.usfm b/24-JER/03.usfm index c7b6a71b..402b3ecf 100644 --- a/24-JER/03.usfm +++ b/24-JER/03.usfm @@ -99,11 +99,9 @@ \q2 It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading for God to be merciful to them. \q1 They will be admitting that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, \q2 and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to. -\b \q1 \v 22 You Israelite people, come back to me! \q2 If you do that, I will cause you to never turn away from me again." -\b \q1 The people will reply, "We are returning to you, \q2 because you are Yahweh, our God. diff --git a/24-JER/04.usfm b/24-JER/04.usfm index c8b785b1..9844f8e9 100644 --- a/24-JER/04.usfm +++ b/24-JER/04.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q1 and he teaches righteous living,' \q2 then the people in the other nations of the world will ask me to bless them as I have blessed you, \q1 and they will all come and honor me." -\b \p \v 3 This is what Yahweh says to the people of Jerusalem and the other cities in Judah, \q1 "Cause your inner beings to be ready to receive my messages @@ -46,7 +45,6 @@ \q1 and weep and beat your breasts \q2 to show that you are very sorry for what you have done, \q2 because Yahweh is still very angry with us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -54,7 +52,6 @@ \q2 The priests and the prophets will be terrified." \p \v 10 Then I replied, "Yahweh my God, you completely deceived the people by telling them that there would be peace in Jerusalem, but now our enemies are ready to slaughter us with their swords!" -\b \s5 \p @@ -65,7 +62,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 They will be like a strong blast that I will send. \q2 Now I am declaring that I will punish you." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,7 +89,6 @@ \q2 it will be as though a sword has stabbed your hearts. \q1 But you are causing those things to happen to you \q2 because of the evil things that you have done." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -114,7 +109,6 @@ \v 21 How long will this battle continue? \q2 How long will I continue to see the enemy battle flags \q2 and hear the sound of their trumpets being blown? -\b \q1 \v 22 Yahweh says: My people are very foolish! \q2 They do not have a relationship with me. @@ -122,7 +116,6 @@ \q2 who do not understand anything. \q1 They very cleverly do what is wrong, \q2 but they do not know how to do what is good. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -151,7 +144,6 @@ \q2 and I will not change my mind. \q1 So when that happens, it will be as though the earth will mourn \q2 and the sky will become very dark. -\b \q1 \v 29 When the people hear the sound of the enemy cavalry and archers marching, \q2 they will be terrified as they flee from their cities. @@ -159,7 +151,6 @@ \q2 and others will run toward the quarries to escape being killed by their enemies. \q1 All the cities in Judah will be abandoned; \q2 not one person will remain in them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -170,7 +161,6 @@ \q1 those things will not help you, \q2 because the people in other countries that you think love you really despise you, \q2 and they will try to kill you. -\b \q1 \v 31 It is as though I already hear the people in Jerusalem crying very loudly, \q2 as a woman cries when she is giving birth to her first child; diff --git a/24-JER/05.usfm b/24-JER/05.usfm index 2661a8d4..bbbfc898 100644 --- a/24-JER/05.usfm +++ b/24-JER/05.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q1 \v 2 But when the people there swear an official oath by Yahweh's life, \q1 they are lying." -\b \q1 \v 3 So I prayed, "Yahweh, you are certainly searching for people who are faithful to you. \q2 You punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. @@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ \q2 leopards that lurk outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. \q1 Those things will happen because the people have sinned very much against God \q2 and have turned away from him very frequently. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,7 +47,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 Should I not punish them for this? \q2 I will certainly get revenge on this nation whose people behave like that! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -72,7 +69,6 @@ \v 13 What God's prophets say is nothing but wind! \q2 They do not have messages from God! \q2 And because they have not believed me, all of these things will happen to them!'" -\b \s5 \p @@ -106,7 +102,6 @@ \v 19 And when the people ask, 'Why is Yahweh doing this to us?' \q2 you will tell them, 'You rejected him and worshiped foreign gods in your own land, \q2 so now you will become slaves of foreigners in a land that is not your land.'" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -135,7 +130,6 @@ \q1 \v 25 It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened; \q2 It is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -153,7 +147,6 @@ \q1 \v 29 So I will certainly punish them for doing those things. \q2 I, Yahweh, declare that I will certainly get revenge on their nation. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/24-JER/06.usfm b/24-JER/06.usfm index 00a5c4c8..dbdeb2ed 100644 --- a/24-JER/06.usfm +++ b/24-JER/06.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 Enemy kings, the shepherds of foreign people groups, will come with their armies and set up their tents around the city, \q2 and each king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy as shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ q1 \q2 because if you do not listen, I will reject you \q1 and cause your land to become desolate, \q2 a land where no one lives." -\b \s5 \p @@ -51,7 +49,6 @@ q1 \q2 "Your enemies will cause your country to become as desolate as a vineyard from which all the grapes have been completely stripped from the vines. \q1 Their soldiers will seize the possessions of those who remain in Israel after the others have been exiled \q2 like farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes that were left. -\b \q1 \v 10 If I command you, Jeremiah, to speak to the Israelite people to warn them, \q2 who will listen to me? @@ -64,7 +61,6 @@ q1 \q1 \v 11 After hearing this I became very angry, \q2 as Yahweh is angry, and I could not hold myself back any longer. -\b \q1 So Yahweh said to me, \q2 "Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. \q1 Tell the men and their wives; @@ -89,7 +85,6 @@ q1 \q2 They do not even know how to blush. \q1 So, they also will be among those who will be killed. \q2 They will be destroyed when I punish them." -\b \s5 \p @@ -119,12 +114,10 @@ q1 \q2 I will not be pleased with your sacrifices. \q1 I will not accept the sacrifices that are completely burned on the altar; \q2 I am not pleased with any of your sacrifices. -\b \p \v 21 Therefore, I will put obstacles on the roads on which my people will travel. \q2 Men and their sons and people's neighbors and friends will stumble over those obstacles and fall down; \q1 everyone will die." -\b \p \v 22 Yahweh also says this, \q1 "You will see a huge army marching toward you from the north. @@ -138,7 +131,6 @@ q1 \q2 the horses' feet sound like the roaring of the ocean waves; \q1 they are riding in battle formation \q2 to attack you people of Jerusalem." -\b \q1 \v 24 The people of Jerusalem say to each other, \q1 "We have heard reports about the enemy; @@ -157,7 +149,6 @@ q1 \q2 as a woman would cry if her only son had died. \q1 For your enemies are very near, \q2 and they are going to destroy everything. Prepare for your own funerals." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/09.usfm b/24-JER/09.usfm index 30cd095f..bf31300c 100644 --- a/24-JER/09.usfm +++ b/24-JER/09.usfm @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ \q because those areas will be desolate, and no one will live there. \q There will be no cattle there to call to each other, \q and all the birds and wild animals will have fled to other places. -\b \q \v 11 Yahweh also says, "I will cause Jerusalem to become a heap of ruins, \q and only jackals will live there. diff --git a/24-JER/10.usfm b/24-JER/10.usfm index 6ee01154..c0c89c8b 100644 --- a/24-JER/10.usfm +++ b/24-JER/10.usfm @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ \q2 the king who rules forever. \q1 When he is angry, all the earth shakes; \q2 and the people of the nations cannot endure what he does when he is angry with them. -\b \s5 \p @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ \q2 he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth. \q1 He sends lightning with the rain \q2 and releases the winds from his storehouses. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,7 +91,6 @@ \v 18 I will soon throw you out of this land \q2 and cause you to experience great troubles, \q2 with the result that you will begin to think of me again." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/24-JER/11.usfm b/24-JER/11.usfm index 39f2b6ab..147985b9 100644 --- a/24-JER/11.usfm +++ b/24-JER/11.usfm @@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ \q2 and you examine everything that we are thinking. \q1 Allow me to watch you getting revenge on the people who want to kill me, \q2 because I trust that you will do for me what is right." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/12.usfm b/24-JER/12.usfm index d8363988..f3d817c9 100644 --- a/24-JER/12.usfm +++ b/24-JER/12.usfm @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ \q2 They plot against you and they say bad things about you. \q2 So even if they say nice things about you, \q1 do not trust them! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -80,7 +79,6 @@ \q2 but they have gained nothing from all that work. \q1 They will be very disappointed because their harvests will be very small, \q2 and that will happen because I, Yahweh, am extremely angry with them." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/13.usfm b/24-JER/13.usfm index 5dd3e92d..791fb6f8 100644 --- a/24-JER/13.usfm +++ b/24-JER/13.usfm @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ \q2 and no one will be able to get through their lines to rescue the people in those towns. \q1 You people of Judah will be captured and taken away; \q2 you will all be exiled. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ \q2 and a leopard certainly cannot change its spots. \q1 Similarly, you cannot start doing what is good, \q2 because you have always done what is evil. -\b \q1 \v 24 Yahweh says, "I will scatter you like chaff \q2 that is blown away by the wind from the desert. diff --git a/24-JER/14.usfm b/24-JER/14.usfm index 5fc5cc22..656bdd20 100644 --- a/24-JER/14.usfm +++ b/24-JER/14.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ \q2 panting like thirsty jackals. \q1 They become blind \q2 because there is no grass to eat. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ \q2 you run from one idol to another. \q1 Therefore, now I will no longer accept you, \q2 and I will punish you for your sins." -\b \p \v 11 Then Yahweh said to me, "Do not pray for these people anymore. \v 12 When they fast, I will not pay any attention. When they bring to me their offerings of animals to be completely burned on the altar and their offerings of flour, I will not accept them. Instead, I will get rid of them by wars, by famines, and by diseases." diff --git a/24-JER/15.usfm b/24-JER/15.usfm index 3c9ccdde..3acbb5b1 100644 --- a/24-JER/15.usfm +++ b/24-JER/15.usfm @@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ \q1 Sometimes you help me, sometimes you do not help me. \q2 It seems that you are as undependable as a brook that has water in it only during certain seasons; \q2 you are like a spring that has dried up." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/16.usfm b/24-JER/16.usfm index 61edcabd..bbbad1b1 100644 --- a/24-JER/16.usfm +++ b/24-JER/16.usfm @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 No one can make their own gods; \q2 the gods that they make are only idols; they are not real gods.'" -\b \q1 \v 21 Then Yahweh said, "Now I will show my power to the people of Judah; \q2 I will show them that I am truly very powerful . diff --git a/24-JER/17.usfm b/24-JER/17.usfm index 504bdc00..009ad4e1 100644 --- a/24-JER/17.usfm +++ b/24-JER/17.usfm @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ \q2 they are people who will not experience any good things. \q1 Those people will live in the barren desert \q2 in a salty area, where no one can safely abide. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -44,26 +43,22 @@ \q2 trees that have roots that go down into the wet ground beside the water. \q1 They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, \q2 trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 9 Human minds are extremely corrupt, \q2 and we cannot change that. \q2 It is also completely impossible for anyone to understand that. -\b \q1 \v 10 But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone's inner being, \q2 and I examine what they are thinking. \q1 I will give all people reward or punishment, \q2 what they deserve for what they have done." -\b \q1 \v 11 I know some people who become rich by doing things that are unjust. \q2 They are like birds that hatch eggs that they did not lay. \q1 So, when those people have lived only half of the years that they expect to live, they will disappear. \q2 Then other people will realize that those people have been foolish. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -73,7 +68,6 @@ \v 13 You are the one whom we Israelite people confidently expect to bless us, \q2 and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced and feel what it is like to be separated from you, \q2 because they have abandoned you, who are like a fountain where people obtain fresh water. -\b \q1 \v 14 Yahweh, please heal me, because if you heal me, I will truly be healed. \q2 If you rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the only one whom I praise. diff --git a/24-JER/20.usfm b/24-JER/20.usfm index a389ca27..63ecde37 100644 --- a/24-JER/20.usfm +++ b/24-JER/20.usfm @@ -54,13 +54,11 @@ \q2 you know all that is in their inner beings and what they think. \q1 Allow me to see you getting revenge on those who want to harm me, \q2 because I came to you to petition for what is right." -\b \q1 \v 13 Sing to Yahweh! \q2 Praise Yahweh! \q1 He rescues poor and needy people, \q2 from those who are wicked. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/24-JER/22.usfm b/24-JER/22.usfm index 52874618..6b00580b 100644 --- a/24-JER/22.usfm +++ b/24-JER/22.usfm @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ \p \v 8 People from many nations will walk past the ruins of this city and say to each other, "Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was very great?" \v 9 And other people will reply, "He did it because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped other gods." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ \q2 with very large rooms and many windows. \q1 They will cover the walls with fragrant cedar panels \q2 and paint them bright red.'" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -74,7 +72,6 @@ \q2 You murder innocent people, \q1 you oppress poor people, \q2 and you treat people cruelly and violently." -\b \p \v 18 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim son of King Josiah: \q1 "When he dies, people will not mourn for him. @@ -84,7 +81,6 @@ \q1 \v 19 When he dies, people will do to his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; \q2 his corpse will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates! -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/24-JER/23.usfm b/24-JER/23.usfm index efcd2988..ec621958 100644 --- a/24-JER/23.usfm +++ b/24-JER/23.usfm @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ \q1 Even the pastures in the desert are all dried up, \q2 because the people do what is evil, \q2 and the false prophets use their power to do things that are not just. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 because I will cause them to experience disasters \q2 at the time that I will punish them. \q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -97,7 +95,6 @@ \v 20 Yahweh will not stop being angry \q2 until he has completely accomplished all that he has planned. \q2 In the future, you will understand all of this clearly." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -109,7 +106,6 @@ \v 22 If they had been in my council meetings, \q2 they would have been able to speak messages from me, \q1 and they would have caused people to turn away from committing evil deeds. " -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/24-JER/27.usfm b/24-JER/27.usfm index e029954b..fcd0afcb 100644 --- a/24-JER/27.usfm +++ b/24-JER/27.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \v 9 So, do not pay attention to your false prophets and fortune tellers and people who predict what will happen by working magic or by talking with spirits of dead people. Those people say not to serve him because the king of Babylon will not conquer your country. \v 10 Those people are all liars. If you believe what they say, it will result in your being exiled from your land. I will cause you to be taken from your land, and you will die far away. \v 11 But the people of any country who do what the king of Babylon wants them to do will remain in their own country and be able to plant their crops as they always have done. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/29.usfm b/24-JER/29.usfm index bbd366d0..c13e5838 100644 --- a/24-JER/29.usfm +++ b/24-JER/29.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ \p \v 1-2 After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah and Jerusalem, and all the various kinds of craftsmen had been exiled to Babylon, Jeremiah wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by soldiers of Nebuchadnezzar. \v 3 He gave the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is the letter that Jeremiah wrote, the message that Yahweh gave him. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/31.usfm b/24-JER/31.usfm index 38ee8421..523c2131 100644 --- a/24-JER/31.usfm +++ b/24-JER/31.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ \q2 on level paths where they will not stumble. \q1 I will do this because I am like a father to the Israelite people; \q2 it is as though Israel is my oldest son." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ \v 14 The priests will have plenty of things to eat and drink, \q2 and all my people will be filled with the good things that I give them. \q1 That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!" -\b \s5 \p @@ -101,7 +99,6 @@ \q1 \v 17 I, Yahweh, am telling you that there are things that you can confidently expect me to do for you in the future. \q2 Your children will return to their own land.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -123,7 +120,6 @@ \q2 but I still love them. \q1 That is why I have not forgotten them, \q2 and I will certainly act mercifully toward them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -137,17 +133,14 @@ \q2 how long will you continue to wander away from me? \q1 I, Yahweh, will cause something to happen on the earth that is new: \q2 the women of Israel will be protecting their husbands as they travel back here!" -\b \s5 \p \v 23 This is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says: "When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, 'I hope that Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous people will live!' \v 24 The people of Judah who live in the towns, including the farmers and the shepherds, will all live together peacefully. \v 25 I will enable weary people to be refreshed with drinks of water, and enable people who are very exhausted to become strong again." -\b \p \v 26 I, Jeremiah, woke up after dreaming all those things, and I looked around. I had slept very delightfully! -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/46.usfm b/24-JER/46.usfm index ce31e921..f948870b 100644 --- a/24-JER/46.usfm +++ b/24-JER/46.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \q2 but even the greatest of their warriors will not escape. \q1 In the north, by the Euphrates River, \q2 they will stumble and fall. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ \q2 my sword will be like a monster that drinks the blood of the animals it kills until it is no longer thirsty. \q1 The enemy soldiers who will be killed in the north beside the Euphrates River \q2 will be like a sacrifice to me, the Lord Yahweh, commander of the angel armies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ \q2 People all over the earth hear you wailing. \q1 Your mighty warriors stumble over each other \q2 and they all fall down together." -\b \s5 \p @@ -95,7 +92,6 @@ \v 17 There in Egypt they will say, \q2 "The king of Egypt talks loudly, \q2 but when our army had an opportunity to defeat our enemies, they failed." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -110,7 +106,6 @@ \q2 pack your possessions and prepare to be exiled. \q1 Memphis will be destroyed; \q2 it will become a ruin, and no people will be living there. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -138,7 +133,6 @@ \q1 \v 24 The people of Egypt will be humiliated; \q2 they will be conquered by people from the northeast.' -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/47.usfm b/24-JER/47.usfm index d735dc21..729794ed 100644 --- a/24-JER/47.usfm +++ b/24-JER/47.usfm @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ \q1 The people of the city of Ashkelon will all be silent because they will be mourning. \q1 All you people who live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea who are still alive, \q2 how long will you gash yourselves because you are mourning?" -\b \q1 \v 6 The people of Philistia say, "Yahweh, when will you tell our enemies to stop killing us with their swords? \q2 Tell them to put them back into their sheaths and allow them to stay there!" diff --git a/24-JER/48.usfm b/24-JER/48.usfm index 669298cf..9d2a5e98 100644 --- a/24-JER/48.usfm +++ b/24-JER/48.usfm @@ -48,11 +48,9 @@ \v 9 Someone should help all the people in Moab to run away, \q2 so that their land will be empty, \q2 so that no one will live in it any longer." -\b \q1 \v 10 May Yahweh punish anyone who will not eagerly do what he desires; \q2 may he curse anyone who refrains from using his sword to kill the people in Moab. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 Then the people of Moab will be ashamed of their god Chemosh that they had trusted in, because it did not help them, \q2 like the Israelite people were ashamed because their gold statue of a calf was smashed at Bethel. -\b \q1 \v 14 The soldiers of Moab previously said, "We are warriors; \q2 we have fought bravely in battles!" @@ -87,7 +84,6 @@ \q2 who know that it is very famous, \q1 should mourn for Moab, \q1 and say, "Its glorious power is completely ended ." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -137,7 +133,6 @@ \v 28 You people who live in Moab, \q2 you should abandon your towns and go and live in caves. \q1 Be like pigeons that make their nests in the entrances of caves." -\b \q1 \v 29 We have all heard that the people of Moab are very proud; \q2 they are extremely proud and conceited. @@ -164,7 +159,6 @@ \q2 as they tread on the grapes; \q1 people will shout, \q2 but they will not be shouting joyfully. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -217,7 +211,6 @@ \v 44 Those who are terrified and try to run away will fall into deep pits. \q2 Whoever climbs out of a pit will be caught in a trap, \q1 because I will punish them at the time that I have appointed.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -233,7 +226,6 @@ \v 46 You people of Moab, terrible things will happen to you! \q2 You people who worship your god Chemosh, you will be destroyed. \q1 Your sons and your daughters will be captured and taken away to other countries. -\b \q1 \v 47 But some day, I will enable the people of Moab to return to their land again. \q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it." diff --git a/24-JER/49.usfm b/24-JER/49.usfm index 3bd51b05..eac4d469 100644 --- a/24-JER/49.usfm +++ b/24-JER/49.usfm @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ \q2 will cause you to become terrified. \q1 You will all be forced to flee to other countries from the enemies all around you, \q2 and no one will be able to bring you together again. -\b \q1 \v 6 But some day I will enable the Ammonite people to return to their land. \q2 That will surely happen, because I, Yahweh, have said it." @@ -66,13 +65,11 @@ \q1 \v 11 Leave behind the orphans because I will take care of them, \q2 and the widows also will be able to depend on me to help them." -\b \s5 \p \v 12 And this is also what Yahweh says: "If those who do not deserve to suffer must suffer, you people of Edom must suffer much more! You will not escape being punished. \v 13 I, Yahweh, have solemnly promised, using my own name, that your chief city Bozrah will become a place that people will be horrified about. It will be a heap of ruins. People will make fun of it and use its name when they curse people. All the nearby towns and villages will be ruined forever." -\b \s5 \p @@ -80,7 +77,6 @@ \q1 "I have sent an ambassador to many nations, \q2 to tell them to gather together to attack Edom. \q2 They must prepare for battle!" -\b \p \v 15 And Yahweh says to the people of Edom, \q1 "I will cause your nation to become very unimportant among the other nations. @@ -165,7 +161,6 @@ \q2 The curtains in their tents and their camels and their other possessions will be taken away. \q1 Everywhere men will shout, \q2 'We are terrified because terrible things are happening all around us!' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -173,7 +168,6 @@ \q2 You people who live in Hazor, go and hide in deep caves, \q1 because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon wants to attack you with his army; \q2 he is planning to destroy you!' -\b \q1 \v 31 But I say to Nebuchadnezzar, \q1 'Go up and attack that nation whose people feel secure; @@ -212,7 +206,6 @@ \q1 \v 38 I, Yahweh, will judge them there , \q2 and then I will get rid of their king and his officials. -\b \q1 \v 39 But some day, I will enable the people of Elam to return to their land. \q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it." diff --git a/24-JER/50.usfm b/24-JER/50.usfm index a0c5666c..3e5ff44e 100644 --- a/24-JER/50.usfm +++ b/24-JER/50.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \q1 They will say to each other, \q2 'We must return to Yahweh again!' \q2 They will make an everlasting agreement with me that they will never forget. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -46,7 +45,6 @@ \q2 he is the one who provides what they need; \q1 he is the one to whom they should have remained faithful; \q2 he is the one whom their ancestors confidently expected to help them.' -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -79,7 +77,6 @@ \q2 I will cause your city to become completely deserted. \q1 All who pass by will be horrified \q2 and will gasp because of the destruction there. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -168,7 +165,6 @@ \q1 \v 28 Listen to the people who have fled and escaped from Babylon \q2 while they tell in Jerusalem how I, Yahweh, have gotten revenge against those who destroyed my temple in Jerusalem. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -205,7 +201,6 @@ \q1 He will defend his people \q2 and enable them to return to their land where they will have peace, \q1 but the people of Babylonia will not have peace. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -229,7 +224,6 @@ \v 38 Yahweh will cause the streams to become dry. \q1 He will do all those things because the entire land of Babylonia is filled with idols, \q2 and those horrible idols have caused the people who worship them to become crazy. -\b \q1 \v 39 Soon only jackals and other wild creatures will live there; \q2 and it will be a place where ostriches live. @@ -238,7 +232,6 @@ \q1 \v 40 Yahweh God will destroy Babylon like he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns; \q2 no one will ever live there again. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -251,7 +244,6 @@ \q2 the sound of the horses' hooves is like the roaring of the ocean waves; \q1 they are riding in battle formation \q2 to attack you, you people of Babylon. -\b \q1 \v 43 The king of Babylon heard their report, \q1 "The enemy is approaching." diff --git a/24-JER/51.usfm b/24-JER/51.usfm index 79ec753e..ce2a8232 100644 --- a/24-JER/51.usfm +++ b/24-JER/51.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \v 5 I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, whom Israel worships, have not abandoned Israel and Judah. \q2 Even though their land was filled with people who sinned against me, the Holy God of Israel, \q2 I am still their God. -\b \q1 \v 6 You people of Israel and Judah, flee from Babylon! \q2 Run to escape! @@ -46,7 +45,6 @@ \q2 Weep for its people! \q1 Give them medicine for their wounds; \q2 perhaps they can be healed." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -56,11 +54,9 @@ \q2 and return to our own lands, \q1 because it is as though the punishment they are receiving reaches up to the clouds in sky; \q2 it is very great, with the result that no one can measure it. -\b \q1 \v 10 Yahweh has vindicated us; \q2 so let us proclaim in Jerusalem everything that Yahweh our God has done for us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -97,7 +93,6 @@ \q2 he causes clouds to form in every part of the earth. \q1 He sends lightning with the rain \q2 and releases the winds from his storehouses. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -114,7 +109,6 @@ \q2 he is the one who created everything that exists; \q1 we, the tribe of Israel, belong to him; \q2 his name is Yahweh, commander of the angel armies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -135,7 +129,6 @@ \v 23 With your power I shatter shepherds and their flocks of sheep, \q2 farmers and their oxen, \q2 governors and their officials." -\b \s5 \p @@ -155,7 +148,6 @@ \v 26 Your city will be abandoned forever; \q2 even the stones in your city will never again be used for buildings. \q2 Your city will be completely destroyed." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -193,7 +185,6 @@ \v 32 The places at which people can cross the river to escape from the city will be blocked. \q2 The dry reeds in the marshes will be set on fire, \q2 and the soldiers of Babylon will be terrified. -\b \s5 \p @@ -201,7 +192,6 @@ \q1 "Babylon is like wheat on the ground where it is about to be threshed \q2 by animals tramping on it. \q2 Very soon their enemies will trample on the city of Babylon." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -242,7 +232,6 @@ \q1 \v 40 I will bring them down to a place where they will be slaughtered, \q2 like someone who takes lambs or rams or goats to where they will be slaughtered for sacrifices. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -299,7 +288,6 @@ \q2 "We are ashamed. \q1 We are completely disgraced, \q2 because foreigners have entered Yahweh's temple and defiled it." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -351,7 +339,6 @@ \s5 \v 63 Then, when you have finished reading what is written on the scroll, tie it to a heavy stone and throw it into the Euphrates River. \v 64 Then say, 'In the same way, Babylon and its people will disappear and never exist again, because of the disasters that Yahweh will bring to it.'" -\b \p This is the end of Jeremiah's messages. diff --git a/25-LAM/01.usfm b/25-LAM/01.usfm index 6a37ffa8..5b66bb7a 100644 --- a/25-LAM/01.usfm +++ b/25-LAM/01.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q2 but now it is alone, like a widow. \q1 Once everyone in the world honored it like a king's daughter, \q2 but now it is like a slave. -\b \q1 \v 2 We in the city weep bitterly all during the nights, \q2 with tears flowing down our cheeks. @@ -17,7 +16,6 @@ \q2 none of those people comfort us now. \q1 All the people groups that were friends with us have betrayed us; \q2 they are all now our enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -29,7 +27,6 @@ \q2 and we have no peace. \q1 When the people Judah were unable to defend ourselves, \q2 that was when our enemies captured us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -39,7 +36,6 @@ \q2 and Jerusalem's priests groan in sorrow. \q1 The young women left in Jerusalem cry \q2 because they are suffering greatly. -\b \q1 \v 5 Our enemies are now masters of our city, \q2 and they prosper. @@ -47,7 +43,6 @@ \q2 because of all the sins that we have committed. \q1 Our enemies have taken all our children \q2 and made them go to other countries. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -57,7 +52,6 @@ \q2 because they can find no grass to eat. \q1 They are very weak \q2 and cannot run from our enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -67,7 +61,6 @@ \q2 and there is no one to help us. \q1 Our enemies destroyed our city \q2 and laughed while they were doing it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +70,6 @@ \q2 they are like people who strip a woman bare and then mock her. \q1 Now we groan in the city; \q2 we are like a woman without clothes who tries to cover herself with her hands. -\b \q1 \v 9 It is as if our city has become filthy because we have sinned so greatly; \q2 we did not think about how God would punish us. @@ -85,7 +77,6 @@ \q2 there is no one to comfort us. \q1 We all call out to God, "Yahweh, look at how we are suffering \q2 because our enemies have defeated us!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,7 +84,6 @@ \q2 all the valuable things that we owned. \q1 People who do not worship you, Yahweh, are going into our sacred temple, \q2 where you had said no foreigner must go into the place where your people worship you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -103,7 +93,6 @@ \q2 to get food to eat to restore their strength. \q1 Yahweh, look at me, \q2 no one values my life. -\b \q1 \v 12 You people who pass by, \q2 you do not seem to care at all about what has happened to me. @@ -120,7 +109,6 @@ \q2 and has prevented me from walking turning back to our home. \q1 He has abandoned me; \q2 I am weak and alone every day, all during the day. -\b \q1 \v 14 He turned the sins that I have committed into a heavy load for me to carry; \q2 it is as though he tied them around my neck. @@ -128,7 +116,6 @@ \q2 but he has caused me to become weak. \q1 He has allowed my enemies to capture me, \q2 and I was not able to do anything to resist them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -137,7 +124,6 @@ \q2 to come and crush me to defeat my strong young soldiers. \q1 The Lord has trampled on the people of Judah \q2 as people trample on grapes in a pit to make juice. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -147,14 +133,12 @@ \q2 The one who comforts me is far away from me. \q1 My children have no hope \q2 because the enemy has taken us all captive. -\b \q1 \v 17 The people who lived in Zion (the city of Jerusalem) \q2 have no one to give them comfort. \q1 Yahweh has give the order that the people in nearby nations \q2 will become the enemies of the descendants of our father Jacob (who are also called the Israelites). \q2 Jerusalem has become disgusting to them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -164,7 +148,6 @@ \q2 Look and see that that I am suffering greatly. \q1 My young daughters and brave sons \q2 have been taken away to far off lands. -\b \q1 \v 19 I pleaded with our allies, in whom we trusted, to help, \q2 but they all refused, @@ -172,7 +155,6 @@ \q1 My priests and my leaders \q2 died with the walls of the city \q1 while they searched for food to eat. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -183,7 +165,6 @@ \q2 and have caused you great sadness! \q1 Our enemies kill people in the streets with their swords; \q2 and that makes our homes the places where the dead are kept. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -194,7 +175,6 @@ \q2 about what Yahweh has done to his people. \q1 Please do soon what you have promised, \q2 when our enemies will suffer like we have suffered! -\b \q1 \v 22 Yahweh, let those evils deeds come near to you \q2 so you may see them all! diff --git a/25-LAM/02.usfm b/25-LAM/02.usfm index c46a1368..e61251ca 100644 --- a/25-LAM/02.usfm +++ b/25-LAM/02.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q2 but he has caused it to become a ruin. \q1 At the time he punished Israel, \q2 he even abandoned his temple in Jerusalem. -\b \q1 \v 2 The Lord destroyed the homes of the people of Judah; \q2 he did not act mercifully. @@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ \q1 He has made our kingdom to be completely helpless, and \q2 he has caused our rulers to lose all honor. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -28,7 +26,6 @@ \q2 when our enemies attacked us. \q1 He has destroyed Israel \q2 like a raging fire destroys everything. -\b \q1 \v 4 He has gotten ready to kill us, his people, \q2 as though we were his enemies. @@ -36,7 +33,6 @@ \q2 members of our own families. \q1 He is extremely angry with us people of Jerusalem; \q2 his anger is like a fire. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -46,7 +42,6 @@ \q2 and made our fortresses into ruins. \q1 He has gotten rid of many people in Jerusalem, \q2 and caused us to mourn and weep for those who were killed. -\b \q1 \v 6 He has caused our enemies to smash his temple \q2 as easily as if it had been a hut in a garden. @@ -54,7 +49,6 @@ \q2 all our sacred festivals and Sabbath days. \q1 He has hated our kings and priests \q2 because he was extremely angry with them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +58,6 @@ \q2 of our temple and our palaces. \q1 They shout victoriously in the temple of Yahweh, \q2 like we previously shouted during our sacred festivals. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -74,7 +67,6 @@ \q2 and then completely destroyed them. \q1 It was as though he caused the towers and walls to lament \q2 because they were now ruins. -\b \q1 \v 9 The city gates have collapsed; \q2 the enemy has destroyed the bars that fastened the gates shut. @@ -82,7 +74,6 @@ \q2 where no one teaches the laws that God gave to Moses. \q1 The prophets do not receive any visions \q2 because Yahweh does not give them any. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -92,7 +83,6 @@ \q2 and throw dust on their heads. \q1 The young girls of Jerusalem bow down sorrowfully, \q2 their faces touch the ground. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -102,7 +92,6 @@ \q2 in my inner being I grieve and am exhausted. \q1 Even children and babies are fainting \q2 and dying in the streets because they have no food. -\b \q1 \v 12 They cry out to their mothers, \q2 "We need something to eat and drink!" @@ -110,7 +99,6 @@ \q2 in the streets of the city. \q1 They slowly die \q2 in the arms of their mothers. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -121,7 +109,6 @@ \q1 You have fallen just as far \q2 as if you had sunk in the ocean; \q2 there is no one who can bring your city back to what it was. -\b \q1 \v 14 The prophets among you claimed that they had seen visions from Yahweh, \q2 but what they said was false and worthless. @@ -129,7 +116,6 @@ \q2 they did not tell you that you had sinned. \q1 Instead, they announced to you things that they said Yahweh had told them; \q2 they tempted you to believe them, and you did. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -139,14 +125,12 @@ \q1 They say, "Is this the great city of Jerusalem? \q2 Is it the city that people said was the most beautiful city in the world, \q2 the city that caused all the people on the earth to rejoice?" -\b \q1 \v 16 Now all our enemies laugh at you; \q2 they hate you so much that they hiss at you and grind their teeth at you. \q1 They say, "We have destroyed Israel! \q2 This is what we longed for, \q2 and now it has happened!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -156,7 +140,6 @@ \q1 He has destroyed your city without acting mercifully toward you; \q2 he has enabled your enemies to be happy about defeating you; \q2 he has enabled your enemies to continually become stronger. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -167,7 +150,6 @@ \q2 Let them flow like rivers. \q1 Do not stop grieving; \q2 do not stop crying." -\b \q1 \v 19 Get up during every night and cry out; \q2 tell Yahweh what you feel in your inner beings. @@ -175,7 +157,6 @@ \q2 to act mercifully to prevent our children from dying; \q1 they are fainting on the street corners \q2 because they have no food to eat. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -185,7 +166,6 @@ \q2 the children whom they have always taken care of. \q1 It is not right that our enemies are killing priests and prophets \q2 in your own temple! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -195,7 +175,6 @@ \q2 you caused them to be killed; \q1 you have slaughtered them \q2 without pitying them at all. -\b \q1 \v 22 You summoned my enemies to attack from every direction, \q2 as though you were calling them to come to a feast. diff --git a/25-LAM/03.usfm b/25-LAM/03.usfm index cf654f14..b922891d 100644 --- a/25-LAM/03.usfm +++ b/25-LAM/03.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 He has punished me many times, \q2 many times during each day. -\b \q1 \v 4 He has caused my skin and my flesh to become old. \q2 He has broken my bones. @@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 \v 6 It is as though he has buried me in a dark place \q2 like those who have been dead for a long time. -\b \q1 \v 7 It is as though he has built a prison wall around me, \q2 and fastened me with heavy chains, so I cannot escape. @@ -35,7 +33,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 It is as though he has blocked my path with a high stone wall \q2 and has caused me to wander everywhere to try to get out. -\b \q1 \v 10 He has waited to attack me \q2 like a bear or a lion hides and waits to attack a man. @@ -47,7 +44,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 It is as though he strung his bow and made me the target \q2 to shoot at with his arrows. -\b \q1 \v 13 It is as though he shot his arrows \q2 deep into my body. @@ -57,7 +53,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 Yahweh has made me suffer greatly, \q2 like someone suffers after drinking something very bitter. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -69,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 I continued to say to myself, "I not strong enough to bear any more hardships. \q2 I no longer expect to that Yahweh will rescue me." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -91,7 +85,6 @@ \q1 \v 24 So I sincerely say to myself, "Yahweh gives me what I need!" \q2 Because I believe this, I will confidently wait for him to do good things for me. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -103,7 +96,6 @@ \q1 \v 27 And it is good for us to suffer patiently \q2 while we are young. -\b \q1 \v 28 Those who seek him to help them should sit by themselves and not complain, \q2 because they know that it is Yahweh who has allowed them to suffer. @@ -116,7 +108,6 @@ \v 30 If someone strikes us on one cheek, \q2 we should turn the other cheek toward that person in order that he may strike it, too, \q2 and accept it when others insult us. -\b \q1 \v 31 Yahweh does not abandon us, his people, forever. \q1 @@ -126,7 +117,6 @@ \q1 \v 33 And he does not take pleasure when he causes people to suffer \q2 or be sad. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -137,7 +127,6 @@ \q1 \v 36 or if they cause judges to decide matters unjustly, \q2 Yahweh certainly sees all these things. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -149,7 +138,6 @@ \q1 \v 39 So it is certainly not right for us, who are only people on earth, to complain \q2 when he punishes us for the sins that we have committed. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -172,7 +160,6 @@ \q1 \v 45 You have made us go among the foreign peoples, \q2 and they think we are only garbage. -\b \q1 \v 46 All our enemies have spoken things to insult us. \q1 @@ -193,7 +180,6 @@ \q1 \v 51 I am very grieved \q2 because of what has happened to the women of my city. -\b \q1 \v 52 My enemies hunted for me \q2 like people hunt for a bird to kill it @@ -204,7 +190,6 @@ \q1 \v 54 The water in the pit rose above my head, \q2 and I said to myself, "I am about to die!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -216,7 +201,6 @@ \q1 \v 57 Then you answered me \q2 and said, "Do not be afraid!" -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -239,7 +223,6 @@ \q1 \v 63 Look at them! Whatever they are doing at the moment, \q2 they make fun of me by the songs that they sing. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/25-LAM/04.usfm b/25-LAM/04.usfm index 8b14a9f5..b89fd63f 100644 --- a/25-LAM/04.usfm +++ b/25-LAM/04.usfm @@ -7,18 +7,15 @@ \q2 but now they are worthless. \q1 Just as our enemies have scattered the sacred stones in the temple, \q2 so they have also scattered our young men. -\b \q1 \v 2 The young men of Jerusalem were as valuable as large amounts of gold, \q2 but now people consider them to be as worthless as ordinary clay pots. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 3 Even the female jackals feed their pups, \q2 but my people act cruelly toward their own children; \q1 the mothers are like ostriches in the desert that abandon their eggs. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -26,13 +23,11 @@ \q2 because they are extremely thirsty; \q1 the children plead for some food, \q2 but no one gives them any. -\b \q1 \v 5 People who previously ate fine food \q2 are now starving in the streets; \q1 those who previously wore fine clothes \q2 now lie upon the rubbish heaps with nothing to eat. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -40,7 +35,6 @@ \q2 and there was no one to rescue them; \q1 but God has punished my people \q2 more severely than the people of Sodom. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -49,13 +43,11 @@ \q1 Their physical bodies were healthy, \q2 and their health and strength could compare \q2 to brilliance and beauty of sapphires. -\b \q1 \v 8 But now their faces are blacker than soot, \q2 and no one recognizes them in the streets. \q1 Their skin has shriveled on their bones, \q2 and it has become as dry as a wooden stick. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,20 +55,17 @@ \q2 than to die of hunger. \q1 There was no food to harvest in the fields, \q2 so the people slowly starved until they died. -\b \q1 \v 10 Women who usually acted with love and compassion \q2 have killed and cooked their own children; \q1 they ate them when there was no other food, \q2 when Jerusalem was being destroyed by attacking armies. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 11 Yahweh has shown to everyone how angry he was with his people! \q1 His anger spread like a fire in Zion (the city of Jerusalem) \q2 that burned the city down to its rock foundations. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -87,7 +76,6 @@ \q2 it happened because the prophets sinned; \q1 the priests also sinned \q2 by causing innocent people to die. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -95,21 +83,18 @@ \q2 as though they were blind. \q1 No one will touch them \q2 because their clothes are stained with the blood of those innocent people. -\b \q1 \v 15 These prophets and priests shout, "Stay away from us! \q2 Do not touch us!" \q1 So the prophets and priests have fled from Israel, \q2 and they wander around from one country to another, \q2 but people in each country keep saying to them, "You cannot stay here!" -\b \s5 \q1 \v 16 It is Yahweh himself who has scattered them; \q2 he no longer is concerned about them. \q1 People do not welcome our priests any longer, and they care nothing for the elders. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -117,13 +102,11 @@ \q2 but it was useless. \q1 We continued to watch to see if one of our allies would save us, \q2 but none of the nations that we were waiting for was willing to help us. -\b \q1 \v 18 Our enemies were pursuing us, \q2 so we could not even walk in our streets because they could take us as prisoners. \q1 Our enemies were about to capture us; \q2 it was time for them to kill us. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -131,7 +114,6 @@ \q1 Even if we fled to the mountains \q2 or hid in the desert, \q2 they went there ahead of us and waited to attack us. -\b \q1 \v 20 Our king, whom Yahweh had appointed, \q2 the one who enabled us to live, @@ -139,7 +121,6 @@ \q2 when we had to live in the other nations as slaves— \q1 the enemy captured him, \q2 as you would capture an animal in a pit. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -147,7 +128,6 @@ \q2 you should be happy while you can, \q1 but Yahweh will punish you also. \q2 You will become so drunk that you will strip off your own clothes. -\b \q1 \v 22 You people of Zion (whose home is in Jerusalem), \q2 the time when Yahweh punishes you for your sins will come to an end. diff --git a/25-LAM/05.usfm b/25-LAM/05.usfm index 03046037..5190cfe4 100644 --- a/25-LAM/05.usfm +++ b/25-LAM/05.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 Our ancestors sinned, and now they are dead, \q2 but we are suffering for the sins that they committed. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/26-EZK/18.usfm b/26-EZK/18.usfm index 96f455b7..7c16b34a 100644 --- a/26-EZK/18.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/18.usfm @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ \q2 That man is truly righteous; \q1 he will remain alive. \q2 That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, promise. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/26-EZK/19.usfm b/26-EZK/19.usfm index e18c1331..41db4d7d 100644 --- a/26-EZK/19.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/19.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ \q2 they took him to the king of Babylon. \q1 There they locked him up in a mountain prison, \q2 with the result that no one on the hills of Israel ever heard him roar again.' -\b \p Also, say to the Israelite people: \s5 @@ -74,7 +73,6 @@ \q1 it burned all the grapes. \q2 Now not even one strong branch remains; \q1 they will never become scepters for a king.' -\b \m This funeral song must be sung very sadly." diff --git a/26-EZK/24.usfm b/26-EZK/24.usfm index ebb211c4..2f211809 100644 --- a/26-EZK/24.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/24.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ \q1 \v 5 Pile wood on the fire, \q2 and cook the bones and the meat in the boiling water.' -\b \s5 \m @@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ \q2 and the corrosion cannot be removed. \q1 Take the pieces of meat out of the pot, \q2 but do not choose which pieces to take out. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/26-EZK/30.usfm b/26-EZK/30.usfm index ea459907..90b36091 100644 --- a/26-EZK/30.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/30.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ \q2 and the power that the people of Egypt are so proud of will end. \q1 From the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Syene in the south, they will kill the soldiers of Egypt's allies. \q2 This is what Yahweh the Lord declares. -\b \m \v 7 Egypt's allies' soldiers will be shocked, and her allies' cities will be destroyed, surrounded by ruined cities in nearby nations. diff --git a/26-EZK/32.usfm b/26-EZK/32.usfm index bc9ff1f1..9714662f 100644 --- a/26-EZK/32.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/32.usfm @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ \v 8 I will cause the stars in the sky to be dark, \q2 and there will be darkness over your entire land; \q2 that will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 Then I will allow the streams in Egypt to become calm again \q2 and to flow as smoothly as olive oil flows.'" This is what the Lord Yahweh announces. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/27-DAN/03.usfm b/27-DAN/03.usfm index f49683e5..f3484eb2 100644 --- a/27-DAN/03.usfm +++ b/27-DAN/03.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ \v 6 Anyone who refuses to do that will be thrown into a blazing fire." \p \v 7 So all those people who had gathered from the many people and nations, who were speaking various languages, when they heard the instruments play, they laid themselves down on the ground and gave their worship and said words of praise to the statue. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/27-DAN/04.usfm b/27-DAN/04.usfm index 0f1beb6e..d9a768d4 100644 --- a/27-DAN/04.usfm +++ b/27-DAN/04.usfm @@ -4,18 +4,14 @@ \c 4 \p \v 1 Several years after Nebuchadnezzar started to rule, he sent this message to every people, nation, and language in his empire. He wrote, -\b \pi "I wish that all things will go very well with you! -\b \pi \v 2 I want you to know about all the ways in which God Most High has shown his power, and how he has done so many amazing things for me. -\b \q1 \v 3 He performs great miracles that show his power; \q2 he does wonderful things. \q1 He will always be king; \q2 he will rule from one generation to another without end." -\b \s5 \pi @@ -86,12 +82,10 @@ \s5 \pi \v 33 At that very moment everything that had been said about Nebuchadnezzar came true. He was driven away from other human beings. He ate grass like an ox, and dew from the sky made me wet every morning. My hair grew as long the feathers of an eagle, and my fingernails became like the claws of a bird. -\b \s5 \pi \v 34 After those seven years ended, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven and acknowledged that what God said was true. Then I could think correctly again, and my sanity was restored. I praised and worshiped the Most High, and I honored him, the one who lives forever. -\b \q1 He rules forever; \q2 his ruling power is an everlasting authority. @@ -103,7 +97,6 @@ \q1 So no one can correct him; \q2 no one can challenge him; \q2 no one can say to him, "Why are you doing these things?" -\b \s5 \pi diff --git a/27-DAN/06.usfm b/27-DAN/06.usfm index 43a13cd8..c6d013d1 100644 --- a/27-DAN/06.usfm +++ b/27-DAN/06.usfm @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ \v 24 Then the king commanded that the men who had accused Daniel be seized and thrown into the pit of lions—along with their wives and children. When they were thrown into the pit, the lions leaped on them and crushed their bones before they fell to the bottom of the pit. \p \v 25 Then King Darius wrote this message and sent it throughout his kingdom to all the people, to every nation, and to all the people no matter what language they spoke: -\b \pi "I wish that all things go very well with you! \s5 diff --git a/27-DAN/09.usfm b/27-DAN/09.usfm index ce3f8d0c..1a3d3530 100644 --- a/27-DAN/09.usfm +++ b/27-DAN/09.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ \v 3 After I read that, I pleaded with the Lord my God by prayer and fasting to help us. I put on clothing made from old grain bags and sat in ashes. \p \v 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and I confessed the sins we had committed: -\b \pi "Lord, I beg you, for you are great and powerful. You have faithfully done what you said you would do for us. You faithfully love those who love you and who do what you have commanded them to do. \s5 diff --git a/28-HOS/02.usfm b/28-HOS/02.usfm index 57429f7d..fae6b06e 100644 --- a/28-HOS/02.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/02.usfm @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert. \q1 She decorated herself with rings and jewelry, as a prostitute would adorn herself for her lovers. \q2 She used to follow her lovers—like Israel has gone after the Baals—those false gods that she worshiped. \q2 And she forgot about me." This is what Yahweh says. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ I will make her like a woman dying from thirst in the desert. \q1 \v 20 I will keep my promise to you, Israel. I will never lie to you; \q2 and you will come to know me—my name is Yahweh. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/04.usfm b/28-HOS/04.usfm index 16d2bffa..9c86716a 100644 --- a/28-HOS/04.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/04.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \q1 from the animals that live in the fields, \q2 to the birds that fly in the sky; \q1 even the fish in the sea, they are also dying. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ \v 9 I will punish you priests just as I punish the people. \q2 I will punish all of you for your behavior; \q2 I will pay you all back for all the wicked deeds you have done. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ \q2 because these trees give good shade. \q1 Following your example, your daughters decided to become prostitutes, \q2 and your daughters-in-law committed adultery. -\b \q1 \v 14 But I will not punish the women for turning to prostitution, \q1 or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. @@ -84,7 +81,6 @@ \q1 The men sleep with prostitutes, \q2 and they offer sacrifices in the houses of idols where there are prostitutes. \q2 It is true: "A people who have not lived as they were taught to live, will come to destruction." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/05.usfm b/28-HOS/05.usfm index d3508178..8ce61553 100644 --- a/28-HOS/05.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/05.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ \q2 I know very well what you are like, you people of Israel. \q1 You people in Ephraim, you have acted like prostitutes. \q2 Yes, you people in Israel are polluted. -\b \q1 \v 4 Ephraim and Israel are not able to ask me to forgive them, because of what they have done. \q1 They have chosen to be unfaithful and immoral, @@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ \q2 and they have had children by foreign women. \q1 So at the time of the new moon festivals, \q2 they will perish, together with their cultivated fields." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ \q1 \v 12 I will destroy Ephraim as a moth destroys wool; \q2 I will destroy Judah as rot destroys wood. -\b \q1 \v 13 When the people of Ephraim realized how weak they were, \q2 then they asked the people of Assyria for help. diff --git a/28-HOS/06.usfm b/28-HOS/06.usfm index 23385402..9946149f 100644 --- a/28-HOS/06.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/06.usfm @@ -60,14 +60,12 @@ \v 10 Among the people of Israel, I have seen a horrible thing— \q2 the people of Ephraim worship idols everywhere. \q1 The people of Israel have become filthy by what they have done. -\b \q1 \v 11 And for you also, you people of Judah, \q2 I have set for you a time when I will separate out your good people from your bad people. \q1 Just as in the harvest when you take all the crops in, \q2 and you keep the good and throw away the bad, \q1 that is what is coming for you, people of Judah. -\b \q1 That will be the day when I bring back the blessings and riches of my people once more." diff --git a/28-HOS/07.usfm b/28-HOS/07.usfm index 4d1d957c..0ccdf176 100644 --- a/28-HOS/07.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/07.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \v 2 But they do not take a moment to think that I, Yahweh, see everything they do. \q2 Everywhere they go, they commit evil, \q1 and I see it all. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -45,14 +44,12 @@ \v 9 People who come from far away have taken away Israel's strength. \q2 The nation is gorwing very weak, like an old man whose hair is turning gray. \q1 But the nation does not know it is weak. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 10 Israel is so proud that everyone else sees it. \q2 Even so, they will not return to me—to Yahweh their God. \q1 They will not try to persuade me to have mercy on them, no matter what happens to them. -\b \q1 \v 11 Israel is like a foolish bird, a dove that anyone can easily deceive. \q2 He calls out first to Egypt, and then like a bird, he flies up to Assyria. diff --git a/28-HOS/08.usfm b/28-HOS/08.usfm index 1fe2eb5c..6dce4902 100644 --- a/28-HOS/08.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/08.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ \v 6 The shame of it is that this idol came from Israel! A craftsman made it. \q1 It is only an idol; it cannot be the true and living God! \q2 I will ensure that someone will smash it to bits. -\b \q1 \v 7 This is because these people do useless things, so something terrible will destroy them. \q2 Their grain standing in the fields will give no harvest. diff --git a/28-HOS/09.usfm b/28-HOS/09.usfm index 1655ec4a..6460e8c7 100644 --- a/28-HOS/09.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/09.usfm @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ \q2 as the Israelites did at Gibeah long ago. \q1 God will not forget the wicked things they did; \q2 he will certainly punish them. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,13 +80,11 @@ \q2 they were like Tyre; they were like a tree planted in a beautiful meadow. \q1 But they will have to lead their own children out to their enemies, who will slaughter them." -\b \q1 \v 14 Hosea says, Yahweh, give them— \q2 what should you give them? \q1 Give them wombs that miscarry, \q2 and let their mothers' breasts have no milk for their babies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -104,7 +101,6 @@ \q2 and produces no fruit. \q1 Even if they give birth, \q2 I will put to death those children they love." -\b \q1 \v 17 Hosea says, My God rejected the people of Israel \q2 because they have not obeyed him, diff --git a/28-HOS/10.usfm b/28-HOS/10.usfm index 775f0fe0..040f3068 100644 --- a/28-HOS/10.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/10.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ \q2 The people will beg the mountains and say, \q1 "Cover us!" \q2 and to the hills, "Fall on us!" -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/11.usfm b/28-HOS/11.usfm index dba9188e..17da3e5f 100644 --- a/28-HOS/11.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/11.usfm @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ \v 4 With kindness I guided them, with the tender cords of human kindness I led them. \q2 I loved them so much that I guided them and led by my own hand. \q1 They worked very hard, like a yoke of oxen pulling a plow, but I made their yoke light and loosened its weight on their jaws, so they did not suffer pain. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ \v 7 My people are determined to turn away from me. \q2 They pretend to call out to me, the Most High God, \q2 but I will allow no one to help them. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/12.usfm b/28-HOS/12.usfm index 76ca8a71..f04be624 100644 --- a/28-HOS/12.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/12.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ \v 6 Turn to your God! \q2 Obey his covenant and do what is right. \q1 Never stop trusting in your God for him to help you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ \q2 "We are very rich, \q1 and we have found ways to make ourselves even more wealthy than we are now. \q2 In all our buying and selling, no one can see anything wrong in what we do." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -55,7 +53,6 @@ \v 10 Many times I spoke to the prophets and gave them messages, for them to give to you; \q2 and I gave them many visions for you, \q2 and I gave them parables, for them to speak to you." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/13.usfm b/28-HOS/13.usfm index 6f2b7c87..fcbc7105 100644 --- a/28-HOS/13.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/13.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q1 as quickly as the dew, when the sun dries it up. \q2 They will disappear as easily as the chaff that the wind blows away from the threshing place. \q2 They will disappear as easily as the smoke that goes out of the chimney. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ \q2 and I will rip open your chests. \q1 Like a lion that attacks— \q2 as a wild animal would tear you apart. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -77,7 +75,6 @@ \q1 No! I will let you die \q2 I will let you perish. \q2 I have no more compassion left for you." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/28-HOS/14.usfm b/28-HOS/14.usfm index 6d0bf8dc..59e33cf2 100644 --- a/28-HOS/14.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/14.usfm @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ \q2 It is I, Yahweh, who will take care of you. No idol can do that. \q1 I am like a cypress tree that grows and stays fresh the entire year; \q2 all your good gifts come from me." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/29-JOL/01.usfm b/29-JOL/01.usfm index d16f913c..abfd2ece 100644 --- a/29-JOL/01.usfm +++ b/29-JOL/01.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \v 3 Tell your children about it, \q2 and tell your children to tell it to their children, \q2 and tell your grandchildren to tell it to their children. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ \q2 then another swarm came hopping along, \q1 and finally another swarm came \q2 and they destroyed everything else. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -40,7 +38,6 @@ \v 7 They have destroyed our grapevines and our fig trees \q2 by stripping off and eating all the bark, \q2 with the result that the branches are white and bare. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +63,6 @@ \v 12 The grapevines and the fig trees have withered, \q2 and the pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apricot trees have also dried up. \q1 The people are no longer joyful. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -84,7 +80,6 @@ \v 15 Terrible things are happening to us! \q2 It will soon be the time when Yahweh, who is the Almighty God, will punish us, \q2 when he will cause us to experience more disasters. -\b \q1 \v 16 Our crops are already gone, \q2 and no one is rejoicing at all at the temple of our God. @@ -99,7 +94,6 @@ \q1 \v 18 Our cattle groan, searching for a pasture with some grass to eat, \q2 and the sheep bleat because they are suffering. -\b \q1 \v 19 Yahweh, I cry out to you, \q2 because our pastures and our forests have dried up in the hot sunshine. diff --git a/29-JOL/02.usfm b/29-JOL/02.usfm index ff100713..9a7c4b87 100644 --- a/29-JOL/02.usfm +++ b/29-JOL/02.usfm @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ \q2 they make a noise like rumbling chariots, \q1 like a mighty army that is preparing for a battle, \q2 or like the roar of a fire that burns up stubble in a field. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 They swarm over the city walls and enter our houses; \q2 they enter through our windows as thieves do. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ \v 13 Do not tear only your clothes \q2 to show that you are sorry; \q2 more importantly, show in your inner being that you are sorry." -\b \q1 Yahweh is merciful and kind; \q2 he does not quickly become angry; \q1 he faithfully loves people. @@ -91,7 +88,6 @@ \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. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -124,7 +120,6 @@ \q1 "I will give you plenty of grain and wine and olive oil, \q2 and you will be satisfied. \q1 I will no longer allow other nations to insult you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -157,7 +152,6 @@ \q1 \v 24 The ground where you thresh the grain will be covered with grain, \q2 and your vats where you store the fresh grape juice and olive oil will overflow. -\b \q1 \v 25 Yahweh said, "I will repay you for everything that was destroyed by those great swarms of locusts, \q2 that enormous army that I sent to attack you. diff --git a/29-JOL/03.usfm b/29-JOL/03.usfm index 083c4908..6a201256 100644 --- a/29-JOL/03.usfm +++ b/29-JOL/03.usfm @@ -44,9 +44,7 @@ \q1 \v 11 All you people from the nations that are near Judah \q2 must come quickly and gather there." -\b \q1 But Yahweh, when that happens, send your army of angels to attack them! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -59,7 +57,6 @@ \q2 because they are very wicked, \q1 punish them severely now, \q2 as a farmer tramples on the grapes until the pits overflow with juice." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -82,7 +79,6 @@ \q2 I live on Zion, the hill I have set apart for myself. \q1 Jerusalem will be a city very special to me, \q2 and soldiers from other countries will never conquer it again. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/30-AMO/02.usfm b/30-AMO/02.usfm index 1b63208f..1a72d174 100644 --- a/30-AMO/02.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/02.usfm @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ \q1 \v 3 and while I am getting rid of its king and all its leaders. \q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!" -\b \s5 @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ \q2 they lie down on that garment at the places where they worship their gods! \q1 They make people pay money for various reasons, \q2 and then they drink it in the temples of their gods. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ \q2 and as strong as oak trees, \q1 but I got rid of them completely, \q2 as easily as someone cuts off the branches of a tree and then digs out all the roots. -\b \q1 \v 10 I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, \q2 and then I led them through the desert for forty years. @@ -75,12 +72,10 @@ \v 11 I chose some of you Israelites to be prophets, \q2 and I chose others to be Nazir who were completely dedicated to me. \q1 You people of Israel certainly know that what I have said is true! -\b \q1 \v 12 But you commanded the prophets to not speak the messages that I gave to them, \q1 and you persuaded the Nazir to drink wine, \q2 which I told them never to do. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/30-AMO/03.usfm b/30-AMO/03.usfm index a687002d..d6115681 100644 --- a/30-AMO/03.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/03.usfm @@ -35,13 +35,11 @@ \q2 to signal that enemies are attacking. \q1 And when a city experiences disaster, \q2 Yahweh is the one who has caused it. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 7 Whatever Yahweh plans to do, \q2 he tells his prophets about it. -\b \q1 \v 8 Everyone certainly becomes terrified when they hear a lion roar; \q2 Yahweh the Lord has given messages to prophets, @@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ \q1 "Come to the hills of Samaria \q2 and see the way that their leaders are causing people in that city to be terrified, \q2 and the way that they are causing the people to suffer!" -\b \q1 \v 10 Yahweh says that the people there do not know how to do things that are right. \q2 Their homes are filled with valuable things that they have stolen or taken violently from others. @@ -73,7 +70,6 @@ \q2 only two legs or an ear of the sheep. \q1 Similarly, only a few people from Samaria will escape, \q2 just as if someone could save only a part of a couch or a bed from a fire in the house." -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/30-AMO/04.usfm b/30-AMO/04.usfm index 4d9b6940..c6eea362 100644 --- a/30-AMO/04.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/04.usfm @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ \q2 and you will go through breaks in your city walls, \q2 and they will force you to go toward Harmon. \q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -36,13 +35,11 @@ \q2 because that is what you like to do; \q1 but you do it to impress others, not to please me. \q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it. -\b \s5 \q1 \v 6 I am the one who caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns, \q2 but you rejected me in spite of that. -\b \q1 \v 7 When it was still three months before the time of harvesting crops, \q2 at the time when your crops needed rain the most, @@ -59,14 +56,12 @@ \q2 but they could not even get enough water to drink, \q2 but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. \q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \q1 \v 9 I caused your grain fields to dry up, \q2 and your gardens and vineyards to be struck and mildew. \q1 I sent locusts to eat the leaves on your fig trees and olive trees, \q2 but in spite of that, you rejected me. \q1 That is certainly true because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -78,20 +73,17 @@ \q2 and your camps were filled with the smell of their corpses. \q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me. \q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \q1 \v 11 I got rid of many of you, \q2 like the people in Sodom and Gomorrah. \q1 Those of you who did not die were like a burning stick that was snatched from a fire so that it would not burn completely. \q2 But in spite of that, you rejected me. \q1 That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it! -\b \s5 \q1 \v 12 So now, you people of Israel, I am going to punish you. \q2 Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, when I judge you! -\b \q1 \v 13 I created the mountains, \q2 and the winds. diff --git a/30-AMO/05.usfm b/30-AMO/05.usfm index 0e2b004b..6acb9d58 100644 --- a/30-AMO/05.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/05.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ \q2 and you will never get up again! \q1 You will lie on the ground, abandoned, \q2 and there will be no one to help you stand up." -\b \s5 \p @@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ \q2 only a hundred will survive. \q1 When a hundred soldiers march out from a city to fight, \q2 only ten will remain alive." -\b \s5 \p @@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 You people distort what is right; you make others think that it is something very bitter; \q2 you treat good things as though they were evil. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +63,6 @@ \v 10 He is the one who will punish you \q1 because you hate those who challenge anyone who tries to make unjust decisions; \q2 you hate those who tell the truth in your courts. -\b \q1 \v 11 You oppress poor people and force them to pay big taxes. \q1 So you have built big stone mansions for yourselves, @@ -84,7 +80,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 This is a time when many people do evil things, \q2 so people who have good sense say nothing at all. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -124,7 +119,6 @@ \q1 \v 20 That day, when he punishes people, will certainly be awful, like a dark night \q2 without even a little bit of light. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -144,7 +138,6 @@ \q1 \v 24 Instead, act justly and righteously; you should do this and never stop; \q2 if you do, it will be like the water in a river that never stops flowing. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/30-AMO/06.usfm b/30-AMO/06.usfm index 8f4ae79d..b20e9954 100644 --- a/30-AMO/06.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/06.usfm @@ -48,13 +48,11 @@ \p \v 9 When that happens, if there are ten people in one house, they will all die. \v 10 If a relative who has the task of burning their corpses comes to the house and inquires of anyone who is still hiding there, "Is there anyone here with you?" and that person replies "No," the one who inquired will say, "Be quiet! You must not call Yahweh's attention to us by mentioning his name, or he may have a reason to kill us!" -\b \s5 \q1 \v 11 Terrible things like that will happen because Yahweh has commanded that the large houses in Israel must be smashed into pieces, \q2 and small houses must be smashed into tiny bits. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ \q1 \v 13 You are proud because you have captured the town of Lo Debar, \q2 and you have said, "We captured Karnaim by our own power!" -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/30-AMO/07.usfm b/30-AMO/07.usfm index 442e094d..02c7faae 100644 --- a/30-AMO/07.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/07.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ \v 5 Then I cried out again, "Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive ?" \p \v 6 So Yahweh changed his mind again, and said, "That also will not happen." -\b \s5 \p @@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ \v 11 This is what he is saying: \q1 'Jeroboam will soon be killed by someone using a sword, \q2 and the people of Israel will be exiled.'" -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/30-AMO/08.usfm b/30-AMO/08.usfm index a9c414c8..26c16d2c 100644 --- a/30-AMO/08.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/08.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ \q2 Those who are needy and poor and who do not have money to buy things, \q1 we will make them our slaves \q2 by buying them with the little amount of silver with which we could buy a pair of sandals!" -\b \s5 \p @@ -54,7 +53,6 @@ \q2 to show that you are sorrowing. \q1 I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son has died. \q2 All of you will be very sad all of that time." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/30-AMO/09.usfm b/30-AMO/09.usfm index 83c7a95f..612452c6 100644 --- a/30-AMO/09.usfm +++ b/30-AMO/09.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ \v 4 If their enemies capture them and force them to go to other countries, \q2 I will command that they be killed there with swords. \q1 I am determined to get rid of them, not to help them." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ \q1 He scoops up the water from the ocean and puts it into clouds, \q2 and then empties the clouds onto the earth. \q2 His name is Yahweh. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -50,13 +48,11 @@ \q1 I brought your ancestors here from Egypt, \q2 but I also brought the people of Philistia from the Island of Crete, \q2 and I brought the people of Aram from the region of Kir. -\b \q1 \v 8 I, Yahweh the Lord, have seen that you people in the kingdom of Israel are very sinful, \q2 so I will destroy you. \q1 But I will not get rid of all you descendants of Jacob. \q2 That is what will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -80,7 +76,6 @@ \q2 and they will also seize the other nations that previously belonged to me. \q1 I, Yahweh, have said that I will do these things, \q2 and I will certainly cause them to happen. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/31-OBA/01.usfm b/31-OBA/01.usfm index 695ddc10..d93a14ec 100644 --- a/31-OBA/01.usfm +++ b/31-OBA/01.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ \p Yahweh our God has told me this about the people of Edom: \q1 "I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, \q2 telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom." -\b \p \v 2 And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: \q1 "I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation on the earth. @@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ \v 4 And I tell you that even if you had wings and could fly higher than eagles fly, \q2 and if you could make your homes among the stars, \q2 I would bring you crashing down from there. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -41,7 +39,6 @@ \q1 Those with whom you have peace now will trick you and defeat you. \q2 Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, \q1 and then they will say to you, 'You are not as clever as you thought you were!' -\b \q1 \v 8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, \q2 I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who thought that they were wise. @@ -97,7 +94,6 @@ \q2 and the people of Edom will be like stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. \q2 Not one person will remain alive. \q1 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/33-MIC/01.usfm b/33-MIC/01.usfm index 766a7255..e9f50bbb 100644 --- a/33-MIC/01.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/01.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ \q2 But it was the people of the city of Samaria who persuaded all the people of Israel to sin. \q1 And it was because the people of Jerusalem set up altars to worship their gods \q2 that the other people of Judah thought they should also worship idols on the hilltops. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/33-MIC/03.usfm b/33-MIC/03.usfm index d81be6ef..7665e6a0 100644 --- a/33-MIC/03.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/03.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q2 but he will not answer you. \q1 At that time, he will turn his face away from you \q2 because of the evil things that you have done." -\b \s5 \p @@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ \v 7 Then you seers will be disgraced; \q2 you will cover your faces because you will be ashamed, \q2 because when you ask me what will happen, there will be no answer from me." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/33-MIC/04.usfm b/33-MIC/04.usfm index 79f8f9c4..0dccb6d8 100644 --- a/33-MIC/04.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/04.usfm @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ \q2 you who guard all of my people as a shepherd guards his sheep from a tower, \q1 you who live on Mount Zion will have great power again. \q2 You people who live in Jerusalem will again rule as you did previously. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -67,7 +66,6 @@ \q1 But while you are there, \q2 I, Yahweh, will rescue you; \q1 I will free you from the power of your enemies. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -79,7 +77,6 @@ \q2 and they do not understand what he is planning. \q1 He will gather them and punish them \q2 as farmers thresh grain on the ground. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -88,7 +85,6 @@ \q1 as if you had horns made of iron, \q2 as if you had hooves made of bronze; \q2 and you will crush many nations. -\b \q1 Then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries, \q2 and I will cause you to dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth." diff --git a/33-MIC/05.usfm b/33-MIC/05.usfm index 24ef6f10..ab3af94e 100644 --- a/33-MIC/05.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/05.usfm @@ -15,13 +15,11 @@ \q2 even though your town is a very small one among all the towns in Judah, \q2 someone who will rule Israel will be born in your town. \q1 He will be someone whose family existed a very long time ago. -\b \q1 \v 3 Now God will allow your enemies to conquer you, you people of Israel, \q2 but it will be for only a short time, \q1 like the short time that women have great pain while their babies are being born. \q2 After that, your fellow countrymen who were exiled will return to their own country. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -42,7 +40,6 @@ \v 6 With their swords our army will defeat the army of Assyria, whose capital Nimrod founded long ago. Our army will rule their cities. \q1 So our army will rescue us from the Assyrian army \q2 when they invade our country. -\b \q1 \v 7 The descendants of Jacob who survive will be a blessing to the people of other nations \q2 like dew and rain sent by Yahweh do good to the grass. @@ -58,7 +55,6 @@ \q1 \v 9 You Israelites will defeat all your enemies \q2 and completely destroy them. -\b \s5 \p diff --git a/33-MIC/06.usfm b/33-MIC/06.usfm index 7dadb06a..d4c0315b 100644 --- a/33-MIC/06.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/06.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ \q1 \v 2 The mountains must listen carefully to what Yahweh says about his people, so they can be witnesses. \q2 Indeed, Yahweh has many things to accuse his people Israel about. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ \q2 and think about what Balaam replied. \q1 Think about how your ancestors crossed the Jordan River miraculously while they were traveling from Acacia to Gilgal. \q2 Think about those things in order that you may know that I, Yahweh, do what is right." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/33-MIC/07.usfm b/33-MIC/07.usfm index 4aea2809..148781ec 100644 --- a/33-MIC/07.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/07.usfm @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ \q2 and girls will defy their mothers. \q1 Women will defy their mothers-in-law. \q2 Your enemies will be those who live in your own house. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ \q2 But with our own eyes we will see them be defeated; \q2 we will see them trampled \q2 like mud in the streets. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -93,12 +91,10 @@ \q2 give them the fertile pastureland \q1 in the regions of Bashan and Gilead, \q2 which they possessed long ago. -\b \p \v 15 Yahweh says, \q1 "Yes, I will perform miracles for you \q2 like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/35-HAB/02.usfm b/35-HAB/02.usfm index c69b1c8c..137433d8 100644 --- a/35-HAB/02.usfm +++ b/35-HAB/02.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ \q2 and they will not be delayed. \q1 You want those things to happen immediately, but they are not happening. \q2 But wait patiently for them to happen! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ \q1 You murdered people of many people groups, \q2 and you destroyed their land and their cities. \q1 So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ \q1 \v 11 The stones in the walls of your houses cry out to accuse you, \q2 and the beams in your ceilings also say the same things! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -82,7 +79,6 @@ \q1 \v 14 But in contrast, like the oceans are filled with water, \q2 the earth will be filled with people who know that Yahweh is very great! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -104,7 +100,6 @@ \q1 but you will be punished severely for doing that. \q1 You have killed many people \q2 and you have destroyed their lands and their cities. -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/35-HAB/03.usfm b/35-HAB/03.usfm index d363b33d..b828cd75 100644 --- a/35-HAB/03.usfm +++ b/35-HAB/03.usfm @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ \q2 In our time, do again some of those things that you did long ago! \q1 Even when you are angry with us, \q2 act mercifully toward us! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ \q1 \v 7 In the vision I saw the people who live in tents in the region of Cushan were very afraid, \q2 and the people in the region of Midian were trembling. -\b \q1 \v 8 Yahweh, was it because you were angry with the rivers and streams that you struck them? \q2 Did the seas cause you to be furious, @@ -57,7 +55,6 @@ \q2 and they trembled in pain. \q1 The water rushed by in floods; \q2 it was as though the deep ocean roared and caused its waves to rise up high. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -82,7 +79,6 @@ \q1 \v 15 You walked through the sea with your horses to destroy our enemies, \q2 and caused the waves to surge. -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -112,7 +108,6 @@ \v 19 Yahweh the Lord is the one who gives me strength, \q2 and he enables me to climb safely like a deer does., \q2 he makes me walk on my high hills. -\b \q (This message is for the choir director: \q2 When this prayer is sung, it is to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments.) diff --git a/36-ZEP/01.usfm b/36-ZEP/01.usfm index d1b34f06..e49b1dcb 100644 --- a/36-ZEP/01.usfm +++ b/36-ZEP/01.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin \q2 I will sweep away birds and fish. \q1 I will get rid of wicked people; \q2 so that there will be no more wicked people on the earth." -\b \s5 @@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin \q1 \v 6 Finally, I will get rid of all those who previously worshiped me but no longer do; \q2 those who no longer seek my help or request me to tell them what they should do." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -44,7 +42,6 @@ Yahweh gave this message during the time when King Amon's son Josiah was the kin \q1 \v 9 including those who show that they revere their god Dagan by avoiding stepping on the threshold of his temple, \q2 and those who do violent things and tell lies in the temples of their gods." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/36-ZEP/02.usfm b/36-ZEP/02.usfm index 318c6ec0..2dd13715 100644 --- a/36-ZEP/02.usfm +++ b/36-ZEP/02.usfm @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ \q2 it will be ruined forever, with none of their people living there! \q1 My people who survive will take away all their valuable possessions \q2 and also occupy their land." -\b \s5 \q1 diff --git a/36-ZEP/03.usfm b/36-ZEP/03.usfm index f66eeee0..e04365a1 100644 --- a/36-ZEP/03.usfm +++ b/36-ZEP/03.usfm @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ \q2 and cause them to know that I am very angry with them. \q1 All over the earth I will punish and destroy people; \q2 I will burn them up with my anger as if it were fire! -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ \q2 they will tell no lies or deceive anyone. \q1 They will eat and sleep safely, \q2 because no one will cause them to be afraid." -\b \s5 \q1 @@ -104,7 +102,6 @@ \q1 He will be very happy about you; \q2 because he loves you, he will cause you to rest without being anxious. \q2 He will sing loudly to rejoice about you, -\b \q1 \v 18 like people who are happy at a festival. Yahweh says, "I will no longer allow any enemies to destroy you. You will no longer be defeated or ashamed. diff --git a/39-MAL/03.usfm b/39-MAL/03.usfm index 410b3d79..d7d46d8f 100644 --- a/39-MAL/03.usfm +++ b/39-MAL/03.usfm @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ \v 10 Now bring all the tithes to the storerooms of the temple, in order that there may be enough food for the people who serve me there. If you do that, I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, promise that I will open the windows of heaven and pour out from them blessings on you. If you bring your tithes to the temple, the blessings will be very great, with the result that you will not have enough space to store all of them. So test me to see if I am telling the truth. \v 11 You will have abundant crops to harvest, because I will protect them in order that locusts do not harm them. Your grapes will not fall from the vines before they are ripe. \v 12 When that happens, the people of all nations will say that I have truly helped you, because your country will be delightful. That is what I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, say." -\b \s5 \pi