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-\v 11 Then David and all the men who were with him tore their clothes to show that they were very sad.
-\v 12 They mourned for Saul and his son Jonathan, and they cried and fasted; they would continue to do that until evening.
+\v 11 Then David took hold of his clothing and he tore them apart, and all the men who were with him tore their clothes apart as well.
+\v 12 They tore their clothing because they were very sad and they refused to eat anything until evening because they remembered that Saul and his son Jonathan had died, and that so many of the people of Yahweh had died, and they were sad because of the great dangers the descendants of Israel had gone through, and because so many of them died in battle.
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 \v 13 But David asked the young man who had told him about the battle, "Where are you from?" He replied, "My father is a descendant of Amalek, but we live in Israel."
 

23-ISA/05.usfm

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 \q2 but instead, he heard people shouting for someone to help them, because others were attacking them.
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-\v 8 Terrible things will happen to those who keep acquiring houses and fields in an illegal way.
-\q1 You force one family after another to leave their homes
-\q2 until you are the only ones still living in the land.
+\v 8 Terrible things will happen to those who keep acquiring houses and fields \q1 without paying attention to the laws about who owns the land.
+\q1 You use your riches to gain more and more property,
+\q2 and soon there is no more property for others to buy,
+\q2 and you would be the only land owners there are in that place.
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 \v 9 But I heard Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, solemnly declare this:
-\q1 "Some day, those huge houses will be empty;
-\q2 no one will be living in those beautiful mansions.
+\q1 "Some day, many houses will have no one to live in them, 
+\q2 even the large and beautiful homes will be empty.
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-\v 10 The vines on as much land that ten pairs of oxen can plow in a day will not produce enough grapes to make even twenty liters of wine,
-\q2 and ten baskets of seed will produce only one basket of grain."
+\v 10 The land that grows vines in this place should require ten pairs of oxen to work them, 
+\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."
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