Yahweh .... and some from Bob Johnson

19-PSA/080.usfm

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-\v 19 Yahweh, God of hosts, restore us;
+\v 19 Yahweh God of hosts, restore us;
 \q make your face shine on us, and we will be saved.
 
 

19-PSA/089.usfm

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 \v 7 He is a God who is greatly honored in the council of the holy ones
 \q and is awesome among all who surround him.
 \q
-\v 8 Yahweh, God of hosts,
+\v 8 Yahweh God of hosts,
 \q who is strong like you, Yahweh?
 \q Your truthfulness surrounds you.
 

24-JER/44.usfm

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 \v 6 So my fury and my wrath were poured out and kindled a fire in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. So they became ruins and devastations, as at this present day."
 
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-\v 7 So now Yahweh, the God of hosts and the God of Israel, says this, "Why are you doing great wickedness against yourselves? Why are you causing yourselves to be cut off from among Judah—men and women, children and babies? No remnant of you will be left.
+\v 7 So now Yahweh the God of hosts and the God of Israel, says this, "Why are you doing great wickedness against yourselves? Why are you causing yourselves to be cut off from among Judah—men and women, children and babies? No remnant of you will be left.
 \v 8 By your wickedness you have offended me with the deeds of your hands, by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live. You have gone there so that you will be destroyed, so that you will be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth.
 
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24-JER/49.usfm

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-\v 5 See, I am about to bring terror on you—this is the declaration of Yahweh the Lord of hosts—
+\v 5 See, I am about to bring terror on you—this is the declaration of Lord Yahweh of hosts—
 \q this terror will come from all those who surround you. Each one of you will be scattered before it.
 \q There will be no one to gather those running away.
 \q

24-JER/50.usfm

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 \v 25 Yahweh has opened his armory and is bringing out the weapons for carrying out his anger.
-\q There is work for the Yahweh Lord of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
+\q There is work for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
 \q
 \v 26 Attack her from far away. Open her granaries and pile her up like heaps of grain.
 \q set her apart for destruction. Leave no remnant of her.

26-EZK/21.usfm

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 \v 26 the Lord Yahweh says this to you: Remove the turban and take off the crown! Things will no longer be the same! Exalt the lowly and humble the exalted!
 \q
-\v 27 I will make everything a ruin! A ruin! A ruin! The crown will exist no longer, not until the one comes who has a right to it. Then I will give it to him.
+\v 27  A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! It will not be restored until the one comes who is assigned to execute judgment.
 
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26-EZK/26.usfm

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 \v 19 For the Lord Yahweh says this: When I make you a desolate city, like the other cities that are not inhabited, when I raise up the deeps against you, and when the great waters cover you,
 \v 20 then I will bring you down to the people of ancient times, like the others who have gone down into the pit; for I will make you live in the lowest realms of the earth as in ruins of ancient times. Because of this you will not come back and stand in the land of the living.
 \f + \ft The expression \fqa and stand in the land of the living \fqa* is supplied by an ancient version. The Hebrew has \fqa I will place glory in the land of the living \fqa* , which does not seem to fit the context here. \f*
-\v 21 I will place disaster on you, and you will exist no more. Then you will be sought, but you will never be found ever again—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
+\v 21 I will place disaster on you, and you will be no more forever. Then you will be sought, but you will never be found ever again—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration."
 
 

26-EZK/27.usfm

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-\v 12 Tarshish was your client because of the multitude of every kind of wealth: silver, iron, tin, and lead. They bought and sold your wares!
+\v 12 Tarshish was a trading partner with you because of your abundant wealth of goods to sell: silver, iron, tin, and lead. They bought and sold your wares!
 \v 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech—they traded slaves and in items made of bronze. They handled your merchandise.
 
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 \v 26 Your rowers have brought you into vast seas;
 \q the eastern wind has broken you in the middle of them.
 \q
-\v 27 Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods; your mariners, sailors, and ship builders; your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—they will fall into the depths of the sea on the day of your destruction.
+\v 27 Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods; your sailors and pilots, and ship builders; your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—they will sink into the depths of the sea on the day of your destruction.
 
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-\v 28 Cities at the sea will tremble at the sound of your pilot's cry;
+\v 28 Cities at the sea will tremble at the sound of your pilots' cry;
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 \v 29 All those who handle oars will come down from their ships;
-\q mariners and every sailor of the sea will stand on the land.
+\q mariners and all the pilots on the sea will stand on the land.
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 \v 30 Then they will make you listen to their voice and will wail bitterly;
 \q they will cast dust up on their heads. They will roll about in ashes.
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 \q and their kings shuddered in horror! Their faces trembled!
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 \v 36 The merchants of the people hiss at you;
-\q you have become a horror, and you will never again exist."
+\q you have become a horror, and you will be no more forever."
 
 

26-EZK/28.usfm

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 \v 15 You had integrity in your ways from the day you were created until injustice was found within you.
 
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-\v 16 In the large volume of your trading you were filled with violence, so you sinned. I have thrown you as defiled from the mountain of God and destroyed you, you, cherub guard, from among the fiery stones.
+\v 16 Through your great trade you were filled with violence, and so you sinned. So I threw you out of the mountain of God, as a one who was defiled, and I destroyed you, guardian cherub, and drove you from among the fiery stones.
 \v 17 Your heart was arrogant with your beauty; you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor. I have sent you down to the earth. I have placed you before kings so they may see you.
 
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 \v 18 Because of your many sins and your dishonest trade, you have defiled your holy places. So I have made fire come out from you; it will consume you. I will turn you into ashes on the earth in the sight of all who look at you.
-\v 19 All the ones who knew you among the peoples will shudder at you; they will be horrified, and you will never exist again.'"
+\v 19 All the ones who knew you among the peoples will shudder at you; they will be horrified, and you will be no more forever.'"
 
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-\v 25 The Lord Yahweh says this, 'When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they were scattered, and when I am set apart among them, so the nations may see. Then they will make their homes in the land I will give to my servant Jacob.
+\v 25 The Lord Yahweh says this, 'When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they were scattered, and when I am set apart among them, so the nations may see, then they will make their homes in the land I will give to my servant Jacob.
 \v 26 Then they will live securely within her and build houses, plant vineyards, and live securely when I execute justice on all the ones who now despise them from all around; so they will know that I am Yahweh their God!'"