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 \v 4 "Be attentive to me, my people; and listen to me, my people!
-\q1 For I will issue a decree, and I will make my justice to be a light for the nations.
+\q1 For a law will go out from me, and I will make my justice to be a light for the nations.
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 \v 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation will go out, and my arm will judge the nations;
 \q1 the coastlands will wait for me; for my arm they will eagerly wait.
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 \v 7 Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your heart:
-\q1 Do not fear the insults of men, nor be disheartened by their abuse.
+\q1 Do not fear the reproach of men, nor be dismayed by their abuse.
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 \v 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool;
 \q1 but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
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 \v 9 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, arm of Yahweh.
 \q1 Awake as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times.
-\q1 Is it not you who crushed Rahab, you who pierced the monster?
+\q1 Is it not you who crushed Rahab, you who pierced the sea monster?
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 \v 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep,
 \q1 and make the depths of the sea into a way for the redeemed to pass through?
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-\v 1 Who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
+\v 1 Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
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 \v 2 For he grew up before Yahweh like a sapling, and like a sprout out of parched earth;
 \q1 he had no remarkable appearance or splendor; when we saw him, there was no beauty to attract us.
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 \v 8 By coercion and judgment he was taken away.
 \q1 As for his generation, who thought that he was cut off from the land of the living,
-\q1 or that he was punished for the offenses of my people?
+\q1 or that he was punished for the transgression of my people?
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 \v 9 They placed his grave with the criminals, with a rich man in his death,
 \q1 although he had done no violence, nor had there been any deceit in his mouth.
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-\v 12 Therefore will I give him his portion among the multitudes, and he will divide the spoils with the many,
+\v 12 Therefore will I give him his portion among the multitudes, and he will divide the plunder with the many,
 \q1 because he exposed himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors.
 \q1 He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
 
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 \v 4 Do not fear for you will not be ashamed, nor be discouraged for you will not be disgraced;
-\q1 you will forget the shame of your youth and the disgrace of your abandonment.
+\q1 you will forget the shame of your youth and the reproach of your abandonment.
 
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 \v 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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 \v 7 "For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
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-\v 8 In a flood of anger I hid my face from you momentarily;
+\v 8 In a flood of anger I hid my face from you for a moment;
 \q1 but with everlasting covenant faithfulness I will have mercy on you—
 \q1 says Yahweh, the one who rescues you.
 
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-\v 1 "Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water,
+\v 1 "Hey! Everyone who is thirsty, come to the water,
 \q2 and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!
 \q2 Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
 
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 \v 6 Also foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh—
-\q1 to serve him, and who love the name of Yahweh, to worship him,
+\q1 to serve him, and who love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants,
 \q1 every one who observes the Sabbath and who keeps from defiling it, and who holds fast my covenant—
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 \v 7 I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
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 \q1 they are shepherds without discernment;
 \q1 they have all turned to their own way, each one covetous for unjust gain.
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-\v 12 "Come," they say, "let us drink wine and liquor.
+\v 12 "Come," they say, "let us get wine and drink much strong drink.
 \q1 Tomorrow will be like today, a day great beyond measure."
 
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 \v 6 Among the smooth things of the river valley are the things that have been assigned to you. They are the object of your devotion.
-\q1 You pour out your drink offering to them and raise up a grain offering. In these things should I take pleasure?
+\q1 You pour out your drink offering to them and raise up a grain offering. Concerning these things should I repent?
 
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-\v 4 Look, you fast to quarrel and fight, and to hit with your fist of wickedness;
+\v 4 Look, you fast in quarreling and strife, and to hit with your fist of wickedness;
 \q1 you do not fast today to make your voice heard above.
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 \v 5 Is this really the kind of fast that I would want: A day for anybody to humble himself,
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 \v 1 Look, Yahweh's hand is not so short that it cannot save; nor his ear so dull, that it cannot hear.
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-\v 2 Your sinful acts, however, have separated you from your God,
+\v 2 Your iniquities, however, have separated you from your God,
 \q1 and your sins have made him hide his face from you and from hearing you.
 
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-\v 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin.
+\v 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with iniquity.
 \q1 Your lips speak lies and your tongue speaks maliciously.
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 \v 4 No one calls in righteousness, and none pleads his case in truth.
-\q1 They trust in empty words, and tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to sin.
+\q1 They trust in empty words, and tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
 
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 \v 12 For our many transgressions are before you, and our sins testify against us;
-\q1 for our transgressions are with us, and we know our sins.
+\q1 for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities.
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 \v 13 We have rebelled, denying Yahweh and turning away from following our God.
 \q1 We have spoken extortion and turning aside, conceived complaining from the heart and words of lying.
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 \v 14 Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands far off;
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-\v 15 Trustworthiness has gone away, and he who turns away from evil makes himself a victim.
+\v 15 Trustworthiness has gone away, and he who turns away from evil makes himself prey.
 \q1 Yahweh saw it and was displeased that there was no justice.
 
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-\v 16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intervene.
+\v 16 He saw that there was no man, and was appalled that there was no one to intervene.
 \q1 Therefore his own arm brought salvation for him, and his righteousness sustained him.
 
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 \v 17 He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon his head.
 \q1 He clothed himself with garments of vengeance and wore zeal as a mantle.
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-\v 18 He repaid them for what they had done, angry judgment to his adversaries, vengeance to his enemies, to the islands punishment as their reward.
+\v 18 He repaid them for their deeds, wrath on his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he repaid recompense to the islands.
 
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 \v 6 Camel caravans will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
 \q1 all of them will come from Sheba;
-\q1 they will bring gold and frankincense, and will sing the praises of Yahweh.
+\q1 they will bring gold and frankincense, and will bring the good news of the praises of Yahweh.
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 \v 7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve your needs; \q1 they will be acceptable offerings on my altar; and I will glorify my glorious house.
 
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-\v 12 Indeed, nations and kingdoms that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be completely destroyed.
+\v 12 Indeed, nations and kingdoms that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be completely ruined.
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 \v 13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress tree, the fir, and the cypress box tree together,
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-\v 14 They will come to you to bow down, the sons of those who humbled you; they will bow at your feet;
+\v 14 They will come to you to bow down, the sons of those who humbled you; those who showed contempt for you will bow at the soles of your feet;
 \q1 they will call you The City of Yahweh, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
 
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 \v 17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, instead of iron I will bring silver;
 \q1 instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. I will appoint peace as your governors, and justice your rulers.
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-\v 18 Violence will no longer be heard in your land, or devastation nor shattering within your borders;
+\v 18 Violence will no longer be heard in your land, neither devastation nor crushing within your borders;
 \q1 but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
 
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