diff --git a/23-ISA/40.usfm b/23-ISA/40.usfm
index f667db1a..f093c1d5 100644
--- a/23-ISA/40.usfm
+++ b/23-ISA/40.usfm
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
 \q2 Encourage them!
 \q1
 \v 2 Speak kindly to the people of Jerusalem;
-\q2 tell them that their suffering is ended,
-\q1 and that I have forgiven them for the sins that they have committed;
-\q2 I have fully punished them for their sins."
+\q2 tell them that their suffering is ended
+\q1 Yahweh has forgiven them for the sins that they have committed.
+\q2 He has fully punished them for their sins."
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 3 I hear someone who is shouting,
-\q1 "In the desert plain make the way straight  for Yahweh to come to you;
+\v 3 Someone is shouting,
+\q1 "In the desert plain make the way straight for Yahweh to come to you;
 \q2 make a smooth road for our God.
 \q1
 \v 4 Fill in the valleys;
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 \q1 and there are not enough animals in Lebanon to offer as sacrifices to him.
 \q1
 \v 17 The nations of the world are completely insignificant to him;
-\q2 he considers that they are worthless and less than nothing .
+\q2 he considers that they are worthless and less than nothing.
 \b
 
 \s5