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 # Only if these permanent things vanish ... will Israel's descendants ever stop from forever being a nation
 
-Yahweh describes a situation that will never happen. He says this to assure the people of Israel that they will always be a nation. Alternate translation: "Just as these permanent things will never vanish ... Israel's descendants will never stop from forever being a nation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
+Yahweh speaks of a situation that will never happen in order to assure the people of Israel that they will never stop being a nation. Alternate translation: "Just as these permanent things will never vanish ... Israel's descendants will never stop from forever being a nation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
 
 # this is Yahweh's declaration