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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ may rebuild, but I will throw down again. Others will call them 'The country of
 
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 \v 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or will he lift up your face?" says Yahweh of hosts.
-\v 9 And now, you try to ask for God's favor, so that he may be gracious to us. "With such an offering on your part, will he lift up any of your faces?" says Yahweh of hosts.
+\v 9 And now, keep asking for God's favor, so that he may be gracious to us. But Yahweh of hosts says that with such an offering on your part, would he lift up any of your faces?
 
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 \v 10 "Oh, if only there were one of you who would shut the temple gates, so that you might not light fires on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and I will not accept any offering from your hand.