diff --git a/23-ISA.usfm b/23-ISA.usfm index b49c2151..49efe41a 100644 --- a/23-ISA.usfm +++ b/23-ISA.usfm @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \p \v 1 I, Isaiah son of Amoz, received from Yahweh this message about the city of Babylon: \q1 -\v 2 Lift up a flag on the bare top of a hill, +\v 2 Lift up a flag on the bare top of a hill \q2 to signal that an army should come to attack Babylon. \q1 Shout to them and wave your hand to signal to them \q2 that they should march through the city gates into the palaces of the proud rulers of Babylon! @@ -1264,12 +1264,12 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \q1 \v 4 Listen to the noise on the mountains, \q2 which is the noise of a huge army marching! -\q1 It is the noise made by people of many peoples shouting. +\q1 It is the noise made by people of many nations shouting. \q2 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has summoned this army to gather together. \q1 \v 5 They come from countries that are far away, \q2 from the most remote places on the earth. -\q1 They are like weapons that Yahweh will use to punish the people with whom he is very angry, +\q1 They are like weapons that Yahweh will use to punish the people with whom he is very angry \q2 and to destroy the entire country of Babylonia. \s5 @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \s5 \q1 -\v 9 Listen to this, you people of Babylon: The day that Yahweh has chosen to act in is near, +\v 9 Listen to this, you people of Babylon: The day in which Yahweh has chosen to act is near, \q2 the day on which he will furiously and fiercely punish you because he is very angry with you. \q1 He will cause your land of Babylonia to be desolate, \q2 and he will destroy all the sinners in it. @@ -1341,8 +1341,8 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \q1 \v 19 Babylon has been a very beautiful city; \q2 all the people of Babylonia have been very proud of Babylon, their capital city; -\q1 but God will destroy Babylon, -\q2 like he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. +\q1 but God will destroy Babylon +\q2 as he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. \q1 \v 20 No one will ever live in Babylon again. \q2 It will be deserted forever. @@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \s5 \p -\v 3 Yahweh will free you Israelite people from suffering and trouble and from being afraid, and from being cruelly treated as slaves. +\v 3 Yahweh will free you Israelite people from suffering and trouble and from being afraid and from being cruelly treated as slaves. \v 4 When that happens, you will make fun of the king of Babylon by singing a song like this: \q1 "You treated us cruelly, but that has ended! \q2 You insulted others and made them suffer, but you can do this no longer! @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \v 29 Do not rejoice, all you people of Philistia, that the enemy army that attacked you has been defeated \q2 and that their king is dead. \q1 He was as dangerous as a snake, -\q2 but there will be another king, +\q2 but there will be another king \q1 who will be more dangerous than a cobra; \q2 he will be like a quick-moving poisonous snake. \q1 @@ -1553,7 +1553,7 @@ and protect them when there are windstorms and rain. \q2 and there will be nothing left that is green. \q1 \v 7 The people will pick up their possessions -\q2 and carry them across the brook of the Willows. +\q2 and carry them across the Brook of the Willows. \s5 \q1