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 \s5
 \q1
-\v 3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being.
+\v 3 But Yahweh, you know me very well.
 \q2 You see what I do and you are able to know what I am thinking.
-\q1 So drag away those wicked people,
-\q2 like people drag away sheep that they are going to butcher.
-\q1 Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
+\q1 Set them apart like we separate the sheep out of the herd so 
+\q2 that on the day of slaughter they will be butchered. 
 \q1
 \v 4 This land is becoming very dry and even the grass is withering.
-\q1 The wild animals and the birds have all died
-\q2 because the people are very wicked.
+\q1 Even the wild animals and the birds have all died
+\q2 because the people who live in this land are very wicked.
 \q1 All this has happened because the people have said,
-\q2 "Yahweh does not know what we are doing!"
+\q2 "Yahweh does not know what has happened to us!"
 
 \s5
 \p