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@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@
 \q1 The people are anguished and in pain
 \q2 like a woman experiences who is about to give birth.
 \q1
-\v 25 How can it be that the famous city has not yet been abandoned? 
-\q That was the city that gave me joy. 
+\v 25 But even now the people of that famous city have not yet abandoned it.
+That was the city that gave me joy.
 
 \s5
 \q1
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@
 \q1 "I will cause an army to advance to attack Kedar
 \q2 and destroy those people who live east of Judah.
 \q1
-\v 29 Their tents and their flocks of sheep will be captured.
-\q2 The curtains in their tents and their camels and their other possessions will be taken away.
+\v 29 Enemies will capture their tents and their flocks of sheep.
+\q2 They will take away the curtains of their tents, their camels, and all of their other possessions.
 \q1 Everywhere men will shout,
 \q2 'We are terrified because terrible things are happening all around us!'