diff --git a/24-JER/06.usfm b/24-JER/06.usfm
index da230dc9..018a2c6a 100644
--- a/24-JER/06.usfm
+++ b/24-JER/06.usfm
@@ -80,15 +80,19 @@
 \v 21 So Yahweh says this, 'See, I am about to place a stumbling block against this people.
 \q They will stumble over it—fathers and sons together. Inhabitants and their neighbors will also perish.'
 \q
-\v 22 Yahweh says this, 'See, a people is coming from a northern land.
-\q For a great nation has been stirred up to come from a distant land.
+\v 22 Yahweh says this, 'See, a people is coming from the land of the north,
+\q a great nation is being stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 23 They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion. Their sound is like the sea roar,
-\q and they are riding on horses in formation as fighting men, daughter of Zion.'"
+\v 23 They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion. 
+\q Their sound is like the sea roar,
+\q and they are riding on horses, 
+\q set out in order as men for battle, against you,
+\q daughter of Zion.'"
 \q
-\v 24 We have heard the news about them. Our hands fall limp in distress. Anguish seizes us as a woman bearing a child.
+\v 24 We have heard the reports about them and our hands fall limp in distress. 
+\q Anguish seizes us as a woman giving birth.
 \q
 
 \s5
diff --git a/24-JER/50.usfm b/24-JER/50.usfm
index 13c231e9..20c95067 100644
--- a/24-JER/50.usfm
+++ b/24-JER/50.usfm
@@ -159,17 +159,20 @@
 \q no one will live there; no person will stay in her."
 \s5
 \q
-\v 41 "See, a people is coming from the north, for a great nation and many kings
-\q have been stirred up from a distant land.
+\v 41 "See, a people is coming from the north; 
+\q a great nation and many kings
+\q are being stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth.
 \q
 \v 42 They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion.
-\q Their sound is like the sea roar, and they are riding on horses in formation as fighting men,
-\q against you, daughter of Babylon.
+\q Their sound is like the sea roar, 
+\q and they are riding on horses, 
+\q set out in order as men for battle, against you,
+\q daughter of Babylon.
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 43 The king of Babylon has heard their report and his hands have fallen limp in distress.
-\q Anguish seizes him like a woman in labor.
+\v 43 The king of Babylon heard the reports about them and his hands fell limp in distress.
+\q Anguish seizes him like a woman giving birth.
 
 \s5
 \q