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 \v 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
-\v 5 "Then I will approach you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, the false witnesses, and against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and who turn away the foreigner from his rights, and against those who do not honor me," says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 5 "Then I will approach you for judgment. I will quickly become a witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, the false witnesses, and against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn away the foreigner, and against those who do not honor me," says Yahweh of hosts.
 
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-\v 6 "For I, Yahweh, do not change; therefore you, people of Jacob, have not been consumed.
+\v 6 "For I, Yahweh, have not change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.
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 \v 7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I
 will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts. "But you say, 'How will we return?'
 
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-\v 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
-\v 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you rob me, this whole nation of you.
+\v 8 Would a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
+\v 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation.
 
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 \v 10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house. And test me now in this," says
-Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing on you, so that there will not be enough room to receive it.
-\v 11 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the harvest of your land; your
+Yahweh of hosts, "if I do not open to you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing on you, until there is no more room for it.
+\v 11 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it does not destroy the harvest of your land. Your
 vines in the fields will not lose their fruit before the right time," says Yahweh of hosts.
-\v 12 "All nations will call you blessed; for you will be a land of delight," says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 12 "All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight," says Yahweh of hosts.
 
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-\v 13 "Your words have been hard against me," says Yahweh. "But you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
-\v 14 You have said, 'It is pointless to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept his requirements or walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?
-\v 15 And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper, but they tempt God and escape.'"
+\v 13 "Your words have been hard against me," says Yahweh. "But you say, 'What have we said among ourselves against you?'
+\v 14 You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept his requirements or walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?
+\v 15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper, but they even tempt God and escape.'"
 
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-\v 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke with one another; Yahweh paid attention and listened, and a book of remembrance was
-written before him for those who feared Yahweh and esteemed his name.
+\v 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke with one another. Yahweh paid attention and listened, and a book of remembrance was
+written before him about those who feared Yahweh and honored his name.
 
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-\v 17 "They will be mine," says Yahweh of hosts, "my own treasured possession, on the day that I act; I will
-spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
-\v 18 Then once more you will distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who worships God and one who does not worship 
+\v 17 "They will be mine," says Yahweh of hosts, "my own treasured possession, on the day that I act. I will
+pity them, as a man pities his own son who serves him.
+\v 18 Then once again you will distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who worships God and one who does not worship 
 him.