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11-1KI/13.usfm

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 \v 31 Then after he had buried him, the old prophet spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
-\v 32 For the message he declared by the word of Yahweh, against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses on the high places in the cities of Samaria, will certainly happen.
+\v 32 For the message he declared by the word of Yahweh, against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses on the high places in the cities of Samaria, will certainly happen."
 
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24-JER/11.usfm

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 \v 11 Therefore Yahweh says this, 'See, I am about to bring disaster on them, disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Then they will call out to me, but I will not listen to them.
 \v 12 The cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and call out to the gods to which they had given offerings, but they will certainly not be saved by them at the time of their disaster.
-\v 13 For you Judah, the number of your gods has increased to equal the number of your cities. And you have made the number of shameful altars in Jerusalem, incense altars for Baal, to equal the number of her streets.
+\v 13 For you Judah, the number of your gods has increased to equal the number of your cities. You have made the number of shameful altars in Jerusalem, incense altars for Baal, equal to the number of her streets.
 
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24-JER/14.usfm

@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ their sons, or their daughters—for I will pour out their wickedness on them.
 \q Do not let them stop, for there will be a great collapse of the virgin daughter of my people—
 \q a great and incurable wound.
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-\v 18 If I go out to the field, there are the ones who were killed by the sword! And if I come to the city,
+\v 18 If I go out to the field, there are the ones who were killed by the sword! \q If I come to the city, there are the diseases that are caused by famine. 
-\q there are the ones that were diseased by famine. Both the prophet and the priest wander about the land, and they do not know.'"
+\q Both the prophet and the priest wander about the land, and they do not know.'"
 
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24-JER/22.usfm

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 \v 1 This is what Yahweh says, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and proclaim this word there.
-\v 2 Say, 'King of Judah, you who sit on David's throne, listen to the word of Yahweh. And listen, you servants of his, and you, his people who come through these gates.
+\v 2 Say, 'King of Judah, listen to the word of Yahweh—you who sit on David's throne—you, and your servants, and your people who come through these gates.
 \v 3 Yahweh says this, "Perform justice and righteousness, and anyone who has been robbed—rescue him from the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat any foreigner in your land, or any orphan or widow. Do not commit violence or pour out innocent blood in this place.
 
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 \v 8 Then many nations will pass by this city. Each person will say to the next, "Why has Yahweh acted in this way toward this great city?"
-\v 9 And the other will answer, "Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and bowed down to other gods and worshiped them."
+\v 9 Then the other will answer, "Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and bowed down to other gods and worshiped them."
 
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 \v 26 I will throw you and your mother who bore you into another land, a country where you were not born, and there you will die.
 
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-\v 27 And about this land to which they will want to return, they will not come back here.
+\v 27 About this land to which they will want to return, they will not come back here.
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 \v 28 Is this a despised and shattered vessel? Is this man Jehoiachin a pot that pleases no one?
 \q Why have they thrown him and his descendants out, and have poured them out into a land that they did not know?

24-JER/23.usfm

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 \q He will reign as king; he will act wisely and cause justice and righteousness in the land.
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 \v 6 In his days Judah will be rescued, and Israel will live in security.
-\q And this is the name by which he will be called: Yahweh is our Righteousness.
+\q Then this is the name by which he will be called: Yahweh is our righteousness.
 
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 \v 7 Therefore see, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when they will no longer say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought the people of Israel up from the land of Egypt.'
-\v 8 Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where they had been driven.' And they will live in their own land."
+\v 8 Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where they had been driven.' Then they will live in their own land."
 
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 \v 13 for I have seen offensiveness among the prophets in Samaria. They prophesied by Baal
 \q and led my people Israel off the right path.
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-\v 14 And among the prophets in Jerusalem I have seen horrible things:
+\v 14 Among the prophets in Jerusalem I have seen horrible things:
 \q They commit adultery and walk in deceit.
 \q They strengthen the hands of evildoers; no one turns back from his evildoing.
 \q All of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomorrah!"
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 \q They have deluded you! They are announcing visions from their own minds, not from Yahweh's mouth.
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 \v 17 They are constantly saying to those who dishonor me, 'Yahweh declares there will be peace for you.'
-\q And everyone walking in the stubbornness of his own heart says, 'Disaster will not come upon you.'
+\q For everyone walking in the stubbornness of his own heart says, 'Disaster will not come upon you.'
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 \v 18 Yet who has stood in Yahweh's council meeting? Who sees and hears his word?
 \q Who pays attention to his word and listens?
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 \v 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him report the dream. But the one to whom I have declared something, let him declare my word truthfully. What does straw have to do with grain?—this is Yahweh's declaration—
-\v 29 And is my word not like fire?—this is Yahweh's declaration—and like a hammer smashing rock?
+\v 29 Is not my word like fire?—this is Yahweh's declaration—and like a hammer that shatters a rock into pieces?
 \v 30 So see, I am against the prophets—this is Yahweh's declaration—anyone who steals words from another person and says they come from me.
 
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24-JER/27.usfm

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 famine, and plague—this is Yahweh's declaration—until I have destroyed them by his hand.
 
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-\v 9 And you! Quit listening to your prophets, your diviners, your seers, soothsayers, and sorcerers who have been speaking to you and saying, 'Do not serve the king of Babylon.'
+\v 9 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your seers, soothsayers, and sorcerers who have been speaking to you and saying, 'Do not serve the king of Babylon.'
 \v 10 For they are prophesying deceit to you in order to send you far away from your lands, for I will drive you away, and you will die.
 \v 11 But the nation that places its neck into the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will allow it to rest in its land—this is Yahweh's declaration—and they will cultivate it and make their homes in it."'"
 

24-JER/28.usfm

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 \v 15 Next Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen Hananiah! Yahweh has not sent you, but you yourself have caused this people to believe in lies.
-\v 16 So Yahweh says this: Look I am about to send you out from the earth. You will die this year, since you proclaimed rebellion against Yahweh."
+\v 16 So Yahweh says this: Look, I am about to send you out from the earth. You will die this year, since you proclaimed rebellion against Yahweh."
-\v 17 And Hananiah the prophet died that year in the seventh month.
+\v 17 In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.

24-JER/29.usfm

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 \v 17 Yahweh of hosts says this, 'See, I am about to send sword, famine, and disease on them. For I will make them like rotten figs that are too bad to be eaten.
 
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-\v 18 And I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague and make them a horrible sight to all the kingdoms on earth—a horror, an object about curses and hissed words, and a shameful thing among all the nations where I scattered her.
+\v 18 Then I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague and make them a horrible sight to all the kingdoms on earth—a horror, an object about curses and hissed words, and a shameful thing among all the nations where I scattered her.
 \v 19 This is because they did not listen to my word—this is Yahweh's declaration—that I sent out to them through my servants the prophets. I repeatedly sent them, but you would not listen—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
 
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