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-\v 1 To Moab, Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this,
+\v 1 To Moab,
+\p Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this,
 \q "Woe to Nebo, for it has been devastated.
 \q Kiriathaim has been humiliated and captured.
 \q Her fortress has been disgraced and crushed.
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 \v 7 For because of your trust in your practices
 \q2 and your wealth
 \q2 you also will be captured.
-\q Then Chemosh will go away into captivit
+\q Then Chemosh will go away into captivity
 \q2 together with his priests and leaders.
 
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 \q2 where there is no one to live in them.
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-\v 10 May anyone who is lazy in doing Yahweh's work be cursed!
+\v 10 May anyone who is lazy in doing Yahweh's work
-\q2 May anyone who keeps his sword back from shedding blood be cursed!
+\q2 be cursed!
+\q May anyone who keeps his sword back from shedding blood
+\q2 be cursed!
 
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 \v 11 Moab has rested secure since he was young.
-\q2 He is like his wine
+\q He is like his wine that has never been poured from pot to pot.
-\q2 that has never been poured from pot to pot.
 \q He has never gone into captivity.
 \q2 Therefore he tastes as good as ever;
 \q2 his flavor remains unchanged.
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 \v 15 Moab will be devastated and its cities attacked. 
-\q For its finest young men have gone down to the place of slaughter.
+\q For its finest young men
-\q2 This is the king's declaration! 
+\q2 have gone down to the place of slaughter.
+\q This is the king's declaration! 
 \q2 Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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 \v 16 Moab's disaster is soon to happen;
 \q2 calamity is hurrying quickly.
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 \v 17 All you who are around Moab, wail;
-\q2 and all you who know its fame,
+\q2 and all you who know its fame, shout this, 
-\q2 shout this, 'Woe, the strong staff, the honored rod,
+\q2 'Woe, the strong staff, the honored rod, has been broken.'
-\q2 has been broken.'
 
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 \v 18 Come down from your honored place
 \q2 and sit on the dry ground,
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 \q2 —this is Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 26 Make him drunk,
 \q2 because he acted proudly against Yahweh.
 \q Let Moab wallow in his vomit, 
 \q2 and let him be an object of ridicule.
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 \v 27 For did not Israel become an object for laughter to you?
 \q Was he found among thieves, 
 \q2 so that you shook your head at him
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 \v 32 I will weep for you more than I did for Jazer,
 \q2 vine of Sibmah!
-\q Your branches passed across the Salt Sea and reached
+\q Your branches passed across the Salt Sea
-\q2 as far as Jazer. 
+\q2 and reached as far as Jazer. 
 \q The destroyer has attacked
 \q2 your summer fruit and your grapes.
 
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 \q2 Any shouts will not be shouts of joy.
 
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 \v 34 From the shouts at Heshbon as far as Eleale
 \q2 their sound is heard at Jahaz,
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 \v 36 So my heart is lamenting for Moab like a flute.
-\q2 My heart is lamenting like flutes for the people of Kir Hareseth. 
+\q2 My heart is lamenting like flutes
+\q2 for the people of Kir Hareseth. 
 \q2 The riches they gained are gone.
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 \v 37 For every head is bald and every beard shaved. 
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 \v 42 So Moab will be destroyed and be no longer a people,
 \q2 because he made himself to be great against Yahweh.
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-\v 43 Terror, the pit, and a trap are coming on you, inhabitant of Moab
+\v 43 Terror, the pit, and a trap are coming on you,
+\q2 inhabitant of Moab
 \q2 —this is Yahweh's declaration.
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-\v 44 Anyone who flees because of terror
+\v 44 Anyone who flees because of terror will fall into the pit,
-\q2 will fall into the pit,
+\q2 and anyone who climbs out of the pi
-\q and anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap
+\q2 will be caught in the trap
-\q2 for I will bring this on them, the people of Moab,
+\q for I will bring this on them, the people of Moab,
 \q2 in the year of my vengeance against them
 \q2 —this is Yahweh's declaration.
 
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 \v 45 The ones who flee will stand in the shadow of Heshbon
 \q2 without any strength,