diff --git a/01-GEN/01.usfm b/01-GEN/01.usfm index 562d2a88..16f69768 100644 --- a/01-GEN/01.usfm +++ b/01-GEN/01.usfm @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ \s5 \v 26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." -\f + \ft Some ancient copies have: \fqa ...Over the livestock, over all the animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. \fqb \f* +\f + \ft Some ancient copies have: \fqa ... Over the livestock, over all the animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. \fqb \f* \v 27 God created man in his own image. In his own image he created him. Male and female he created them. \s5 diff --git a/01-GEN/25.usfm b/01-GEN/25.usfm index 0fea6224..2b3479d4 100644 --- a/01-GEN/25.usfm +++ b/01-GEN/25.usfm @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ \s5 \v 29 Jacob cooked some stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was weak from hunger. -\v 30 Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me with that red stew. Please, I am exhausted!" That is why was his name was called Edom. +\v 30 Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me with that red stew. Please, I am exhausted!" That is why his name was called Edom. \s5 \v 31 Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright." diff --git a/02-EXO/23.usfm b/02-EXO/23.usfm index 78b12abc..edc87730 100644 --- a/02-EXO/23.usfm +++ b/02-EXO/23.usfm @@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ \v 15 You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you will eat unleavened bread for seven days. At that time, you will appear before me in the month of Abib, which is fixed for this purpose. It was in this month that you came out from Egypt. But you must not appear before me empty-handed. \s5 -\v 16 You must observe the Festival of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors when you sowed seed in the fields. Also you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the fields. +\v 16 You must observe the Festival of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors when you sowed seed in the fields. Also you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the fields. \v 17 All your males must appear before me, Yahweh, three times every year. \s5 \p \v 18 You must not offer the blood from sacrifices made to me with bread containing yeast. The fat from the sacrifices at my festivals must not remain all night until the morning. -\v 19 You must bring the choicest first fruits from your land into my house, the house of Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. +\v 19 You must bring the choicest firstfruits from your land into my house, the house of Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. \s5 \p @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ \s5 \v 23 My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. I will destroy them. -\v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do. Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their sacred stone pillars in pieces. +\v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do. Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their stone pillars in pieces. \v 25 You must worship me, Yahweh your God. If you do, I will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you. \s5 diff --git a/02-EXO/34.usfm b/02-EXO/34.usfm index 04950099..fe762412 100644 --- a/02-EXO/34.usfm +++ b/02-EXO/34.usfm @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ \s5 \v 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you. -\v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles. +\v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles. \v 14 For you must worship no other god, for I, Yahweh, whose name is 'Jealous,' am a jealous God. \s5 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 25 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with any yeast, nor may any meat from the sacrifice at the Festival of the Passover be left over to the morning. -\v 26 You must bring the best of the first fruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." +\v 26 You must bring the best of the firstfruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." \s5 \v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write down these words, for I pledge myself to these words I have spoken, and have made a covenant with you and Israel." diff --git a/03-LEV/02.usfm b/03-LEV/02.usfm index 2e0dd512..889f9031 100644 --- a/03-LEV/02.usfm +++ b/03-LEV/02.usfm @@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ \s5 \p \v 11 No grain offering that you offer to Yahweh is to be made with yeast, for you must burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. -\v 12 You will offer them to Yahweh as an offering of first fruits, but they will not be used to produce a sweet aroma on the altar. +\v 12 You will offer them to Yahweh as an offering of firstfruits, but they will not be used to produce a sweet aroma on the altar. \v 13 You must season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must never allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering. With all your offerings you must offer salt. \s5 \p -\v 14 If you offer a grain offering of first fruits to Yahweh, offer fresh grain that is roasted with fire and then crushed into meal. +\v 14 If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to Yahweh, offer fresh grain that is roasted with fire and then crushed into meal. \v 15 Then you must put oil and incense on it. This is a grain offering. \v 16 Then the priest will burn part of the crushed grain and oil and incense to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness. This is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. diff --git a/03-LEV/20.usfm b/03-LEV/20.usfm index 9d123a8b..3a024b0a 100644 --- a/03-LEV/20.usfm +++ b/03-LEV/20.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ \p \v 6 The person who turns to those who talk with the dead, or to those who talk with spirits so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people. \v 7 Therefore dedicate yourselves to Yahweh and be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. -\f + \ft Several modern versions have: \fqa ...Because I, Yahweh your God, am holy \fqb \f* +\f + \ft Several modern versions have: \fqa ... Because I, Yahweh your God, am holy \fqb \f* \s5 \p diff --git a/03-LEV/23.usfm b/03-LEV/23.usfm index d799c908..56a7cbbd 100644 --- a/03-LEV/23.usfm +++ b/03-LEV/23.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, -\v 10 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you have come into the land that I will give you, and when you reap its harvest, then you must bring a sheaf of its first fruits to the priest. +\v 10 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you have come into the land that I will give you, and when you reap its harvest, then you must bring a sheaf of its firstfruits to the priest. \v 11 He will raise the sheaf before Yahweh and present it to him, for it to be accepted on your behalf. It is on the day after the Sabbath that the priest will raise it and present it to me. \s5 @@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ \v 16 until the day after the seventh Sabbath. That is, you must count fifty days. Then you must offer an offering of new grain to Yahweh. \s5 -\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be an offering from the first fruits that will be raised and presented to Yahweh. +\v 17 You must bring out of your houses two loaves made from two tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast; they will be an offering from the firstfruits that will be raised and presented to Yahweh. \v 18 You must present with the bread seven lambs one year old and without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They must be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire and producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh. \s5 \v 19 You must offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice, as fellowship offerings. -\v 20 The priest must raise them up before Yahweh, together with the bread of the first fruits, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest. +\v 20 The priest must raise them up before Yahweh, together with the bread of the firstfruits, and present them to him as an offering with the two lambs. They will be holy offerings to Yahweh for the priest. \v 21 You must make a proclamation on that same day. There will be a holy assembly, and you must do no ordinary work. This will be a permanent statute throughout your people's generations in all the places where you live. \s5 diff --git a/03-LEV/26.usfm b/03-LEV/26.usfm index 44f51ec8..8f71d970 100644 --- a/03-LEV/26.usfm +++ b/03-LEV/26.usfm @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ \s5 \v 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters. -\v 30 I will destroy your shrines, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you. +\v 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you. \s5 \v 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings. diff --git a/04-NUM/05.usfm b/04-NUM/05.usfm index 841f7301..e96e84ea 100644 --- a/04-NUM/05.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/05.usfm @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ \s5 \v 18 The priest must place the woman before Yahweh. The woman must uncover her head and untie her hair. The priest must put into her hands the grain offering as an indicator. This is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest must hold in his hand the bitter water with the dust in it that can bring a curse on her. -\v 19 The priest must cause her to swear an oath. He must say to the woman, "If no man has slept with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will certainly be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse. +\v 19 The priest must cause her to swear an oath. He must say to the woman, 'If no man has slept with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will certainly be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse. \s5 -\v 20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you..." -\v 21 Then the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman, "...then Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell. -\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach, swell your abdomen, and waste away your thighs." The woman is to reply, "Yes, let that happen if I am guilty." +\v 20 But if you, a woman under her husband, have gone astray, if you are defiled, and if some other man has slept with you, +\v 21 then,' (the priest must cause the woman to swear an oath that can bring down a curse on her, and then he must continue speaking to the woman) 'Yahweh will make you into a curse that will be shown to your people to be such. This will happen if Yahweh causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell. +\v 22 This water that brings the curse will go into your stomach, swell your abdomen and waste away your thighs.' The woman is to reply, 'Yes, let that happen if I am guilty.' \s5 \p @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ \v 30 It is the law for a man with a spirit of jealousy when he is jealous of his wife. He must bring the woman before Yahweh, and the priest must do to her everything that this law of jealousy describes. \s5 -\v 31 The man will be free from guilt for bringing his wife to the priest. The woman must bear any guilt she might have.'" +\v 31 The man will be free from guilt for bringing his wife to the priest. The woman must bear any guilt she might have." diff --git a/04-NUM/11.usfm b/04-NUM/11.usfm index 3225fc05..547e5780 100644 --- a/04-NUM/11.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/11.usfm @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ \v 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will bear the burden of the people with you. You will not have to bear it alone. \s5 -\v 18 Say to the people, 'dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh's hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it. +\v 18 Say to the people, 'Dedicate yourselves to Yahweh for tomorrow. You will indeed eat meat, for you have wept in Yahweh's hearing. You said, "Who will give us meat to eat? It was good for us in Egypt." So Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat it. \v 19 You will not eat meat for only one day, two days, five days, ten days, or twenty days, \v 20 but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, "Why did we leave Egypt?"'" diff --git a/04-NUM/18.usfm b/04-NUM/18.usfm index ff4e8a7b..f27f1ba1 100644 --- a/04-NUM/18.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/18.usfm @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ \s5 \p \v 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "Look, I have given you the duty of handling the offerings raised up to me, and all the holy offerings that people of Israel give to me. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your ongoing share. -\v 9 These things from the offerings that are completely dedicated to Yahweh, but are not completely burned up will be yours. Every sacrifice the people bring, including every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—all these very holy offerings—that they reserve for me and bring to me will be for you and for your sons. +\v 9 These things from the offerings that are completely dedicated to Yahweh, but are not completely burned up, will be yours. Every sacrifice the people bring, including every grain offering, every sin offering, and every guilt offering—all these very holy offerings that they reserve for me and bring to me—will be for you and for your sons. \s5 \v 10 It is completely dedicated to me, that you must eat these offerings. Every male among you must eat these offerings. They must be regarded by you as reserved for me. \v 11 These are the offerings that will belong to you: their gifts that are set apart from all the raised offerings of the people of Israel, offerings that have been raised high before me and presented to me. I have given them to you, your sons, and your daughters, as your ongoing share. Everyone who is ritually clean in your family may eat any of these offerings. \s5 -\v 12 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the first fruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you. +\v 12 All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you. \v 13 The first ripe produce of all that is in their land, which they bring to me, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your family may eat these things. \s5 diff --git a/04-NUM/21.usfm b/04-NUM/21.usfm index 00106687..54b8483e 100644 --- a/04-NUM/21.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/21.usfm @@ -31,11 +31,8 @@ \s5 \v 14 That is why it says in the scroll of the Wars of Yahweh, -\q "Waheb in Suphah, -\q and the valleys of the Arnon, -\q -\v 15 the slope of the valleys -\q that lead toward the town of Ar +\q "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon, +\v 15 the slope of the valleys that lead toward the town of Ar \q and go down toward the border of Moab." \s5 @@ -75,7 +72,7 @@ \v 28 A fire blazed from Heshbon, \q a flame from the city of Sihon \q that devoured Ar of Moab, -\q and the owners of the hills by the Arnon. +\q and the owners of the high places of Arnon. \s5 \q diff --git a/04-NUM/22.usfm b/04-NUM/22.usfm index a0fc58c5..7905f5fd 100644 --- a/04-NUM/22.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/22.usfm @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to the shrines of Baal. From there Balaam could see only a part of the Israelites in their camp. +\v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to the high place of Baal. From there Balaam could see only a part of the Israelites in their camp. diff --git a/04-NUM/23.usfm b/04-NUM/23.usfm index 3aa1eeb8..074a999d 100644 --- a/04-NUM/23.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/23.usfm @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ \s5 \v 7 Then Balaam began to speak his prophecy and said, -\q "Balak has brought me from Aram. -\q2 The king of Moab from the eastern mountains. +\q "Balak has brought me from Aram, +\q2 the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. \q 'Come, curse Jacob for me,' he said. \q2 'Come, defy Israel.' \q @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ \q2 Or a human being, that he should change his mind. \q Has he promised anything without doing it? \q2 Has he said he would do something without carrying it out? -\q \v 20 Look, I have been commanded to bless. \q2 God has given a blessing, and I cannot reverse it. \q @@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ \q2 or trouble in Israel. \q Yahweh their God is with them, \q2 and shouts for their king are among them. -\q \v 22 God brought them out of Egypt \q2 With strength like that of a wild ox. @@ -84,7 +82,7 @@ \q \v 24 Look, the people rise like a lioness, \q2 as a lion emerges and attacks. -\q2 He does not lie down until he eats his victim +\q He does not lie down until he eats his victim \q2 and drinks the blood of what he has killed." \s5 diff --git a/04-NUM/24.usfm b/04-NUM/24.usfm index f18accad..2d31d19e 100644 --- a/04-NUM/24.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/24.usfm @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ \q2 The man whose eyes are wide open. \q \v 16 This is a prophecy of someone who hears words from God, -\q who has knowledge from the Most High, -\q who has visions from the Almighty, +\q2 who has knowledge from the Most High, +\q2 who has visions from the Almighty, \q Before whom he bows down with open eyes. \s5 @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ \v 17 I see him, but he is not here now. \q I look at him, but he is not near. \q A star will come out of Jacob, -\q and a scepter will rise out of Israel. +\q2 and a scepter will rise out of Israel. \q He will shatter Moab's leaders -\q and destroy all the descendants of Seth. +\q2 and destroy all the descendants of Seth. \s5 \q @@ -85,22 +85,22 @@ \q2 whom Israel will conquer with force. \q \v 19 Out of Jacob a king will come who will have dominion, -\q and he will destroy the survivors of their city." +\q2 and he will destroy the survivors of their city." \s5 \m \v 20 Then Balaam looked at Amalek and began his prophecy. He said, \q "Amalek was once the greatest of nations, -\q but his final end will be destruction." +\q2 but his final end will be destruction." \s5 \m \v 21 Then Balaam looked toward the Kenites and began his prophecy. He said, \q "The place where you live is strong, -\q and your nest is in the rocks. +\q2 and your nest is in the rocks. \q \v 22 Nevertheless Kain will be ruined -\q when Assyria carries you away captive." +\q2 when Assyria carries you away captive." \m \s5 @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ \q "Woe! Who will survive when God does this? \q \v 24 Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; -\q they will attack Assyria and will conquer Eber, -\q but they, too, will end in destruction." +\q2 they will attack Assyria and will conquer Eber, +\q2 but they, too, will end in destruction." \s5 \m diff --git a/04-NUM/28.usfm b/04-NUM/28.usfm index 86fc90fa..dec217ba 100644 --- a/04-NUM/28.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/28.usfm @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 26 Also on the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new grain offering to Yahweh in your Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly to honor Yahweh, and you must not do regular work on that day. +\v 26 Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a new grain offering to Yahweh in your Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly to honor Yahweh, and you must not do regular work on that day. \v 27 You must offer a burnt offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. You must offer two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. \v 28 Offer also grain offering to go with them: fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for each bull and two tenths for the one ram. diff --git a/04-NUM/31.usfm b/04-NUM/31.usfm index 253d5560..cfe992f9 100644 --- a/04-NUM/31.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/31.usfm @@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ \s5 \v 36 The half that was kept for the soldiers numbered 337,000 sheep. \v 37 Yahweh's part of the sheep was 675. -\v 38 The oxen were thirty-six thousand which Yahweh's tax was 72. +\v 38 The oxen were thirty-six thousand which Yahweh's tax was seventy-two. \s5 -\v 39 The donkeys were 30,500 from which Yahweh's part was 61. -\v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand women of whom Yahweh's tax was 32. +\v 39 The donkeys were 30,500 from which Yahweh's part was sixty-one. +\v 40 The persons were sixteen thousand women of whom Yahweh's tax was thirty-two. \v 41 Moses took the tax that was to be an offering presented to Yahweh. He gave it to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. \s5 diff --git a/04-NUM/33.usfm b/04-NUM/33.usfm index a4df191c..1d3cde42 100644 --- a/04-NUM/33.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/33.usfm @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ \p \v 50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho and said, \v 51 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, -\v 52 then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast figures and demolish all their shrines. +\v 52 then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast figures and demolish all their high places. \s5 \v 53 You must take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given you the land to possess. diff --git a/04-NUM/36.usfm b/04-NUM/36.usfm index 359de6d1..41aeddc2 100644 --- a/04-NUM/36.usfm +++ b/04-NUM/36.usfm @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ \s5 \c 36 \p -\v 1 Then the leaders of their ancestor's families in the clan founded by Gilead son of Machir who was Manasseh's son—the leaders of the clans of Joseph's descendants, came up and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families among the people of Israel. +\v 1 Then the leaders of their ancestor's families in the clan founded by Gilead son of Machir (who was Manasseh's son), who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, they came and spoke before Moses and before the leaders who were the heads of the ancestor's families of the people of Israel. \v 2 They said, "Yahweh commanded you, our master, to give a share of land by lot to the people of Israel. You were commanded by Yahweh to give the share of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. \s5 -\v 3 But if his daughters marry men in another tribe among the people of Israel, then their share of land will be removed from our ancestor's share. It will be added to the share of the tribes that they join. In that case, it will be removed from the assigned share of our inheritance. +\v 3 But if his daughters marry men in another tribe of the people of Israel, then their share of land will be removed from our ancestor's share. It will be added to the share of the tribes that they join. In that case, it will be removed from the assigned share of our inheritance. \v 4 In that case, when the Jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their share will be joined to the share of the tribe that they have joined. In this way, their share will be taken away from the share of our ancestors' tribe." \s5 @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ \v 7 No share of the people of Israel must change from one tribe to another. Each one of the people of Israel must continue with the share of his ancestor's tribe. \s5 -\v 8 Every woman among the people of Israel who owns a share in her tribe must marry someone from the clans belonging to her father's tribe. This is so that everyone among the people of Israel may own an inheritance from his ancestors. -\v 9 No share may change hands from one tribe to another. Everyone among the tribes of the people of Israel must keep his own inheritance." +\v 8 Every woman of the people of Israel who owns a share in her tribe must marry someone from the clans belonging to her father's tribe. This is so that everyone of the people of Israel may own an inheritance from his ancestors. +\v 9 No share may change hands from one tribe to another. Everyone of the tribes of the people of Israel must keep his own inheritance." \s5 \p diff --git a/05-DEU/07.usfm b/05-DEU/07.usfm index 5a5a0d72..df31f6c1 100644 --- a/05-DEU/07.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/07.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \s5 \v 4 For they will turn away your sons from following me, so that they may worship other gods. So the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly. -\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: you will break down their altars, dash their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols. +\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: you will break down their altars, dash their stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols. \s5 \p diff --git a/05-DEU/12.usfm b/05-DEU/12.usfm index 6f1a9fde..6e1fb34d 100644 --- a/05-DEU/12.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/12.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree; \s5 -\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their sacred stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. +\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. \v 4 You will not worship Yahweh your God like that. \s5 diff --git a/05-DEU/18.usfm b/05-DEU/18.usfm index 47c52053..e1a47914 100644 --- a/05-DEU/18.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/18.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \s5 \v 3 This will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be oxen or sheep: they must give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts. -\v 4 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you must give him. +\v 4 The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you must give him. \v 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever. \s5 diff --git a/05-DEU/32.usfm b/05-DEU/32.usfm index 0c74e86c..cc268d52 100644 --- a/05-DEU/32.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/32.usfm @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 13 He made him ride on the heights of the land, +\v 13 He made him ride on high places of the land, \q and he fed him the fruits of the field; \q he nourished him with honey from the rock, \q and oil from the flinty crag. diff --git a/05-DEU/33.usfm b/05-DEU/33.usfm index c2e0861c..a9b67ee6 100644 --- a/05-DEU/33.usfm +++ b/05-DEU/33.usfm @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ \q the shield of your help, \q and the sword of your majesty? \q Your enemies will come trembling to you; -\q you will stamp down their high places. +\q you will trample down their high places. diff --git a/07-JDG/09.usfm b/07-JDG/09.usfm index 104857de..c0ddc482 100644 --- a/07-JDG/09.usfm +++ b/07-JDG/09.usfm @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ \s5 \v 12 The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.' \v 13 The vine said to them, 'Should I give up my new wine, which cheers gods and mankind, and return and sway over the other trees?' -\v 14 Then said all the trees to the thorn bush, 'Come and reign over us.' +\v 14 Then said all the trees to the thornbush, 'Come and reign over us.' \s5 -\v 15 The thorn bush said to the trees, 'If you truly want to anoint me as king over you, then come and find safety under my shade. If not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and let it burn up the cedars of Lebanon.' +\v 15 The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you truly want to anoint me as king over you, then come and find safety under my shade. If not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and let it burn up the cedars of Lebanon.' \v 16 Now therefore, if you have acted in truth and honesty, when you made Abimelech king, and if you have done well concerning Jerub Baal and his house, and if you have punished him as he deserves— \s5 diff --git a/10-2SA/01.usfm b/10-2SA/01.usfm index 8e78f5c4..7a3bcde6 100644 --- a/10-2SA/01.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/01.usfm @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ \v 18 He commanded the people to teach this Song of the Bow to the sons of Judah, which has been written in The Book of Jashar. \q \v 19 "Your glory, Israel, -\q2 is dead, killed on your mountains! +\q2 is dead, killed on your high places! \q How the mighty have fallen! \q \v 20 Do not tell it in Gath, diff --git a/10-2SA/22.usfm b/10-2SA/22.usfm index 66aebb05..47e1578f 100644 --- a/10-2SA/22.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/22.usfm @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 34 He makes my feet swift like a deer -\q and places me on the mountains. +\q and places me on the high hills. \q \v 35 He trains my hands for war, \q and my arms to bend a bow of bronze. diff --git a/11-1KI/02.usfm b/11-1KI/02.usfm index 66cebd8a..60c7288e 100644 --- a/11-1KI/02.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/02.usfm @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 26 Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields. You are worthy of death, but I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father and suffered in every way my father suffered." -\f + \ft Some versions have, \fqa ...the ark of Yahweh.... \fqb \f* +\f + \ft Some versions have, \fqa ... the ark of Yahweh ... \fqb \f* \v 27 So Solomon dismissed Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh. \s5 diff --git a/11-1KI/03.usfm b/11-1KI/03.usfm index 799f6ae8..4be9e461 100644 --- a/11-1KI/03.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/03.usfm @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ \c 3 \p \v 1 Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house, the house of Yahweh, and the wall around Jerusalem. -\v 2 The people were sacrificing at the shrines, because no house had yet been built for the name of Yahweh. -\v 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines. +\v 2 The people were sacrificing at the high places, because no house had yet been built for the name of Yahweh. +\v 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. \s5 \p -\v 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great shrine. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. +\v 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place there. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. \v 5 Yahweh appeared at Gibeon to Solomon in a dream by night; he said, "Ask! What should I give you?" \s5 diff --git a/11-1KI/04.usfm b/11-1KI/04.usfm index 99a73ebc..1dfd3d84 100644 --- a/11-1KI/04.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/04.usfm @@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ \v 1 King Solomon was king over all Israel. \v 2 These were his officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest. \v 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah sons of Shisha, were secretaries. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder. -\v 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army. -Zadok and Abiathar were priests. +\v 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army. Zadok and Abiathar were priests. \f + \ft Some versions treat \fqa Zadok and Abiathar were priests \fqb as a later addition to the text. \f* \s5 diff --git a/11-1KI/11.usfm b/11-1KI/11.usfm index b2ea8ab9..ec87b39a 100644 --- a/11-1KI/11.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/11.usfm @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ \v 6 Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he did not fully follow Yahweh, as David his father had done. \s5 -\v 7 Then Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon. -\v 8 He also built shrines for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them. +\v 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon. +\v 8 He also built high places for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them. \s5 \p diff --git a/11-1KI/12.usfm b/11-1KI/12.usfm index cc39a117..18d6e443 100644 --- a/11-1KI/12.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/12.usfm @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ So Israel went back to their tents. \v 30 So this act became a sin. The people went to one or the other, all the way to Dan. \s5 -\v 31 Jeroboam made temples at shrines; he also made priests from among all the people, who were not among the sons of Levi. -\v 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the shrines that he had made. +\v 31 Jeroboam made houses on high places and he also made priests from among all the people, who were not among the sons of Levi. +\v 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places he had made. \s5 \v 33 Jeroboam went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month he had planned in his own mind; he ordained a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense. diff --git a/11-1KI/13.usfm b/11-1KI/13.usfm index 3823c5df..e05210e7 100644 --- a/11-1KI/13.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/13.usfm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ \c 13 \p \v 1 A man of God came out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. -\v 2 The man of God cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "Altar, altar, Yahweh says, 'See, a son will be born to the family of David, Josiah by name, and on you he will sacrifice the priests of the shrines who burn incense on you; on you they will burn men's bones.'" +\v 2 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh: "Altar, altar!" this is what Yahweh says, 'See, a son named Josiah will be born to the family of David, and on you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who now burn incense on you. On you they will burn human bones.'" \v 3 Then the man of God gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that Yahweh has spoken: 'Look, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes on it will be poured out.'" \s5 @@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ \s5 \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 what he said when he cried out by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the temples at the shrines in the cities of Samaria, will surely come about." +\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. \s5 \p -\v 33 After this Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but still made priests for the shrines from among all the people. He consecrated whoever would serve, that there might be priests for the shrines. -\v 34 This thing became sin to the family of Jeroboam and caused it to be cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth. +\v 33 After this Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but continued to appoint common priests for the high places from among all sorts of people. Any who would serve he consecrated as a priest. +\v 34 This matter became sin to the family of Jeroboam and caused his family to be destroyed and to be exterminated from the face of the earth. diff --git a/11-1KI/14.usfm b/11-1KI/14.usfm index 7f71531b..cca84c46 100644 --- a/11-1KI/14.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/14.usfm @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ \v 22 Judah did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; they provoked him to jealousy with the sins that they committed, more than everything that their fathers had done. \s5 -\v 23 For they also built shrines, sacred stone pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. +\v 23 For they also built for themselves high places, stone pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. \v 24 There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same despicable things that the nations did, which Yahweh drove out before the people of Israel. \s5 diff --git a/11-1KI/15.usfm b/11-1KI/15.usfm index a154319c..05848788 100644 --- a/11-1KI/15.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/15.usfm @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ \v 13 He also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen, because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. Asa cut down the disgusting figure and burned it at the Kidron Valley. \s5 -\v 14 But the shrines were not taken away. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted to Yahweh all his days. +\v 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted to Yahweh all his days. \v 15 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that were dedicated to Yahweh by his father and the things that he had dedicated, objects of silver and gold. \s5 diff --git a/11-1KI/22.usfm b/11-1KI/22.usfm index 2bf92114..771b46a5 100644 --- a/11-1KI/22.usfm +++ b/11-1KI/22.usfm @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ \v 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. \s5 -\v 43 He walked in the ways of Asa, his father; he did not turn away from them; he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. However, the shrines were still not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense at the shrines. +\v 43 He walked in the ways of Asa, his father; he did not turn away from them; he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. Yet the high places were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. \v 44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. \s5 diff --git a/12-2KI/10.usfm b/12-2KI/10.usfm index 47cb25e2..99c5efc6 100644 --- a/12-2KI/10.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/10.usfm @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 25 So then as soon Jehu finished offering the burnt offering, he said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them. Let no one come out." So they killed them with the edge of the sword, and the guard and the captains threw them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal. -\v 26 And they dragged out the sacred stone pillars that were in the house of Baal, and they burned them. +\v 26 And they dragged out the stone pillars that were in the house of Baal, and they burned them. \v 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the house of Baal and made it a latrine, which it is to this day. \v 28 That is how Jehu destroyed Baal and removed its worship from Israel. diff --git a/12-2KI/12.usfm b/12-2KI/12.usfm index a0fc7f5f..680e7575 100644 --- a/12-2KI/12.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/12.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \p \v 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, the reign of Joash began; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba. \v 2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the time, because Jehoiada the priest was instructing him. -\v 3 But the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at them. +\v 3 But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. \s5 \p diff --git a/12-2KI/14.usfm b/12-2KI/14.usfm index 7f4e4a87..52116bf3 100644 --- a/12-2KI/14.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/14.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father. He did everything that Joash, his father, had done. \s5 -\v 4 But the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines. +\v 4 But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. \v 5 It came about that as soon as his rule was well established, he killed the servants who had murdered his father, the king. \s5 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ \s5 \v 20 They brought him back on horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. \v 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. -\v 22 It was Azariah who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors. +\v 22 It was Azariah who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors. \s5 \p diff --git a/12-2KI/15.usfm b/12-2KI/15.usfm index ce554a2b..499e198d 100644 --- a/12-2KI/15.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/15.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, following the example of his father, and doing as Amaziah had done. \s5 -\v 4 However, the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines. +\v 4 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. \v 5 Yahweh afflicted the king so that he was a leper to the day of his death and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king's son, was over the household and ruled the people of the land. \s5 @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ \s5 \v 34 Jotham did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. He followed the example of all his father Azariah had done. -\v 35 However, the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines. Jothan built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. +\v 35 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. Jothan built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. \v 36 As for the other matters concerning Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in The Book of the Events of the Kings of Judah? \s5 diff --git a/12-2KI/17.usfm b/12-2KI/17.usfm index c57b2e86..8112bd4a 100644 --- a/12-2KI/17.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/17.usfm @@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ \v 8 and walking in the practices of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel, and in the practices of the kings of Israel that they had done. \s5 -\v 9 The people of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God. They built shrines in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. -\v 10 They also set up sacred stone pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. +\v 9 The people of Israel did secretly—against Yahweh their God—things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. +\v 10 They also set up stone pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. \s5 -\v 11 There they burned incense in all the shrines, as the nations had done, those whom Yahweh had carried away before them. The Israelites performed wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; +\v 11 There they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations had done, those whom Yahweh had carried away before them. The Israelites performed wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger; \v 12 they worshiped idols, about which Yahweh had said to them, "You will not do this thing." \s5 @@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ \v 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should honor Yahweh. \s5 -\v 29 Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the shrines that the Samaritans had made - every ethnic group in the cities where they lived. +\v 29 Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the high places that the Samaritans had made—every ethnic group in the cities where they lived. \v 30 The people of Babylon made Succoth Benoth; the people of Cuthah made Nergal; the people of Hamath made Ashima; \v 31 the Awites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvites. \s5 -\v 32 They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the shrines. +\v 32 They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the high places. \v 33 They honored Yahweh and also worshiped their own gods, in the customs of the nations from among whom they had been taken away. \s5 diff --git a/12-2KI/18.usfm b/12-2KI/18.usfm index afa66866..bc63c273 100644 --- a/12-2KI/18.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/18.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, following the example of all that David, his ancestor, had done. \s5 -\v 4 He removed the shrines, destroyed the sacred stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the people of Israel were burning incense to it; it was called "Nehushtan." +\v 4 He removed the high places, destroyed the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the people of Israel were burning incense to it; it was called "Nehushtan." \v 5 Hezekiah trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among the kings who were before him. \s5 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ palace. \v 21 Look, you trust in the walking stick of this bruised reed of Egypt, but if a man leans on it will stick into his hand and pierce it. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to anyone who trusts in him. \s5 -\v 22 But if you say to me, 'We are trusting in Yahweh our God,' is not he the one whose shrines and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem'? +\v 22 But if you say to me, 'We are trusting in Yahweh our God,' is not he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem'? \v 23 Now therefore, I want to make you a good offer from my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to find riders for them. \s5 diff --git a/12-2KI/21.usfm b/12-2KI/21.usfm index 4fcfa941..6dea6e8f 100644 --- a/12-2KI/21.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/21.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \p \v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. \v 2 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel. -\v 3 For he rebuilt the shrines that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them. +\v 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them. \s5 \v 4 Manasseh built pagan altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, "It is in Jerusalem that my name will be forever." diff --git a/12-2KI/23.usfm b/12-2KI/23.usfm index ed9cf3e7..3a443579 100644 --- a/12-2KI/23.usfm +++ b/12-2KI/23.usfm @@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ \s5 \p \v 4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests under him, and the gatekeepers, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal and Asherah, and for all the stars of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields in the Kidron Valley and carried their ashes to Bethel. -\v 5 He removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had chosen to burn incense at the shrines in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, to the planets, and to all the stars of heaven. +\v 5 He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had chosen to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, to the planets, and to all the stars of heaven. \s5 \v 6 He brought out the Asherah pole from the temple of Yahweh, outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley and burned it there. He beat it to dust and threw that dust onto the graves of the common people. \v 7 He cleared out the rooms of the cultic prostitutes who were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women wove garments for Asherah. \s5 -\v 8 Josiah brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the shrines where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba. He destroyed the shrines at the gates, the shrines that were at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, built by a city governor named Joshua. These shrines were to the left of the city gate as one entered the city. -\v 9 Even though the priests of those shrines were not allowed to serve at the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, they were allowed to eat unleavened bread, like their brother priests. +\v 8 Josiah brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba. He destroyed the high places at the gates that were at the entrance to the gate of Joshua (the city governor), on the left side of the city gate. +\v 9 Although the priests of those high places were not allowed to serve at the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. \s5 \v 10 Josiah defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben Hinnom, so that no one might offer his son or his daughter as a burnt offering in the fire to Molech. @@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ \s5 \v 12 Josiah the king destroyed the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the temple of Yahweh. Josiah smashed them into pieces and threw them into the Kidron Valley. -\v 13 Josiah defiled the shrines that were east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Corruption that Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the disgusting idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon. -\v 14 King Josiah broke into pieces the sacred stone pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled in their places with human bones. +\v 13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the mount of corruption that Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the detestable idol of the people of Ammon. +\v 14 He broke the stone pillars into pieces and cut down the Asherah poles and he filled those places with the bones of human beings. \s5 \p -\v 15 Josiah also broke down the altar that was at Bethel and the shrine that Jeroboam son of Nebat, the one who had made Israel sin, had constructed. He burned the altar at the shrine and beat it to dust; he also burned the Asherah pole. +\v 15 Josiah also completely destroyed the altar that was at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat (the one who made Israel to sin) had constructed. Jeroboam was . He also burned that altar and the high place, and beat it to dust. He also burned the Asherah pole. \v 16 As Josiah looked over the area, he noticed the graves that were on the hillside. He sent men to take the bones from the graves; then he burned them on the altar, which defiled it. This was according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God had spoken, the man who spoke of these things beforehand. \s5 @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ \v 18 So Josiah said, "Let it alone. No one should move his bones." So they let his bones alone, along with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria. \s5 -\v 19 All the temples and shrines that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger—Josiah took them away. He did to them exactly what had been done at Bethel. -\v 20 He also killed all the priests of the shrines on the altars there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. +\v 19 And Josiah removed all the houses on the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made, and that provoked Yahweh to anger. He did to them exactly what had been done at Bethel. +\v 20 He slaughtered all the priests of the high places on the altars and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. \s5 \p diff --git a/13-1CH/01.usfm b/13-1CH/01.usfm index b82a4112..18fe2c6a 100644 --- a/13-1CH/01.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/01.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ \v 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, \v 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech. \v 4 The sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. -\f + \ft Some versions omit \fqa The sons of... \fqa , but others include this expression. \f* +\f + \ft Some versions omit \fqa The sons of ... \fqa , but others include this expression. \f* \s5 \p @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 28 The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael. -\v 29 These are their sons: the firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, +\v 29 These are their sons: The firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, \v 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, \v 31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were Ishmael's sons. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan. \s5 \v 49 When Shaul died, then Baal Hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place. -\v 50 When Baal Hanan son of Achbor died, then Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pai. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the granddaughter of Me Zahab. +\v 50 When Baal Hanan son of Achbor died, then Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pai. His wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred daughter of Me Zahab. \s5 \v 51 Hadad died. diff --git a/13-1CH/02.usfm b/13-1CH/02.usfm index 74de7b06..6e1a71d0 100644 --- a/13-1CH/02.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/02.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ \p \v 5 Perez's sons were Hezron and Hamul. \v 6 Zerah's sons were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. -\v 7 Carmi's son was Achar, who brought trouble on Israel, when he stole what was reserved for God. +\v 7 Carmi's son was Achar, who brought trouble on Israel when he stole what was reserved for God. \v 8 Ethan's son was Azariah. \s5 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 18 Caleb son of Hezron became the father of children by Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth. His sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. +\v 18 Caleb son of Hezron became the father of children by Azubah, his wife, and by Jerioth. His sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. \v 19 Azubah died, and then Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. \v 20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ \v 28 The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur. \s5 -\v 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; she bore him Ahban and Molid. +\v 29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. \v 30 The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim, but Seled died without children. \v 31 The son of Appaim was Ishi. The son of Ishi was Sheshan. The son of Sheshan was Ahlai. \v 32 The sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, were Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children. diff --git a/13-1CH/03.usfm b/13-1CH/03.usfm index 7ca68820..e39f845d 100644 --- a/13-1CH/03.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/03.usfm @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ \p \v 1 Now these are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: \q The firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam from Jezreel; -\q the second, Daniel, by Abigail from Carmel; +\q the second was Daniel, by Abigail from Carmel; \q \v 2 the third was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur. \q The fourth was Adonijah son of Haggith; \q -\v 3 the fifth, Shephatiah by Abital; -\q the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. +\v 3 the fifth was Shephatiah by Abital; +\q the sixth was Ithream by Eglah his wife. \m \s5 \v 4 These six were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. He then ruled thirty-three years in Jerusalem. diff --git a/13-1CH/04.usfm b/13-1CH/04.usfm index 03dc86a4..d4560a1f 100644 --- a/13-1CH/04.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/04.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ \s5 \v 5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. -\f + \ft \v 6 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were Naarah's sons. \v 7 Helah's sons were Zereth, Izhar, Ethnan, \v 8 and Koz, who became the father of Anub and Zobebah, and of the clans descended from Aharhel son of Harum. @@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ \v 20 The sons of Shimon were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben Zoheth. \s5 -\v 21 The descendants of Shelah, a son of Judah, were Er father of Lecah, Laadah father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth Ashbea, +\v 21 The descendants of Shelah son of Judah, were Er father of Lecah, Laadah father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth Ashbea, \v 22 Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who had property in Moab, but who returned to Bethlehem. (This information is from ancient records.) \v 23 Some of these people were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah and worked for the king. diff --git a/13-1CH/16.usfm b/13-1CH/16.usfm index 3215efb7..a6c48282 100644 --- a/13-1CH/16.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/16.usfm @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ \p \v 37 So David left Asaph and his brothers before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to serve continually before the ark, as every day's work required. \v 38 Obed Edom with those sixty-eight relatives were included. Obed Edom son of Jeduthun, along with Hosah, were to be gatekeepers. -\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the shrine at Gibeon. +\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place in Gibeon. \s5 \v 40 They were to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar for burnt offerings continually morning and evening, following all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he gave as a command to Israel. diff --git a/13-1CH/21.usfm b/13-1CH/21.usfm index 1daca233..b49f4945 100644 --- a/13-1CH/21.usfm +++ b/13-1CH/21.usfm @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 28 When David saw that Yahweh had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he performed the sacrifice there at that same time. -\v 29 Now at that time, Yahweh's tabernacle, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar for burnt offerings, were at the shrine at Gibeon. +\v 29 Now at that time, Yahweh's tabernacle, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar for burnt offerings, were at the high place at Gibeon. \v 30 However, David could not go there to ask for God's direction, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. diff --git a/14-2CH/01.usfm b/14-2CH/01.usfm index 29c8b818..93a6b612 100644 --- a/14-2CH/01.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/01.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \s5 \v 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' houses. -\v 3 So Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the shrine that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh, had made in the wilderness. +\v 3 So Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh, had made in the wilderness. \v 4 But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place that he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. \v 5 In addition, the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh; Solomon and the assembly went to it. \f + \ft Some older versions have, \fqa the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, he placed there before the tabernacle of Yahweh \fqb , where \fqa he \fqb refers to David. \f* @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ \s5 \v 12 Wisdom and knowledge are now given to you; I will also give you riches, wealth, honor, more than any of the kings before you ever had, and more than any after you will have." -\v 13 So Solomon came to Jerusalem from the shrine that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting; he reigned over Israel. +\v 13 So Solomon came to Jerusalem from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting; he reigned over Israel. \s5 \p diff --git a/14-2CH/11.usfm b/14-2CH/11.usfm index c04b54a1..6958a9e6 100644 --- a/14-2CH/11.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/11.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ \p \v 13 The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel went over to him from within their borders. \v 14 For the Levites left their pasturelands and property in order to come to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had driven them away, so that they could no longer perform priestly duties for Yahweh. -\v 15 Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the shrines and the idols of calves and goats that he had made. +\v 15 Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the high places and the idols of calves and goats he had made. \s5 \v 16 People from all the tribes of Israel came after them, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel; they came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. diff --git a/14-2CH/14.usfm b/14-2CH/14.usfm index 3d4460a3..7e9b89fb 100644 --- a/14-2CH/14.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/14.usfm @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ \p \v 1 Abijah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. Asa, his son, became king in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years. \v 2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, -\v 3 for he took away the foreign altars and the shrines; he broke down the sacred stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. +\v 3 for he took away the foreign altars and the high places. He broke down the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. \v 4 He commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to carry out the law and the commandments. \s5 -\v 5 Also he took away from all the cities of Judah the shrines and the incense altars. The kingdom was quiet under him. +\v 5 Also he took away the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under him. \v 6 He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him peace. \s5 diff --git a/14-2CH/15.usfm b/14-2CH/15.usfm index 2a1e677d..ebe58f4e 100644 --- a/14-2CH/15.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/15.usfm @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 16 He also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen, because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. Asa cut down the disgusting figure, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron. -\v 17 But the shrines were not taken away from Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days. +\v 17 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days. \s5 \v 18 He brought into the house of God the things of his father and his own things that belong to Yahweh: silver and gold objects. diff --git a/14-2CH/17.usfm b/14-2CH/17.usfm index daec4902..0ee03c8e 100644 --- a/14-2CH/17.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/17.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \s5 \v 5 So Yahweh established the rule in his hand; all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat. He had riches and honor in abundance. -\v 6 His heart was fixed on Yahweh's ways. He also took away the shrines and the Asherah poles from Judah. +\v 6 His heart was committed to Yahweh's ways. He also removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah. \s5 \p diff --git a/14-2CH/20.usfm b/14-2CH/20.usfm index b069627b..66a1a6bf 100644 --- a/14-2CH/20.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/20.usfm @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ \p \v 31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. \v 32 He walked in the ways of Asa, his father; he did not turn away from them; he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. -\v 33 However, the shrines were still not taken away, nor had the people yet directed their hearts to the God of their ancestors. +\v 33 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still had not directed their hearts to the God of their ancestors. \s5 \v 34 As for the other matters concerning Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu son of Hanani, which is recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel. diff --git a/14-2CH/21.usfm b/14-2CH/21.usfm index fc3a91b2..85fc22fc 100644 --- a/14-2CH/21.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/21.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 11 In addition, Jehoram had also built shrines in the mountains of Judah; he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to act like a prostitute. In this way he led Judah astray. +\v 11 In addition, Jehoram had also built high places in the mountains of Judah and he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to live like prostitutes, and he led Judah astray. \s5 \v 12 A letter from the prophet Elijah came to Jehoram. It said, "This is what Yahweh, the God of David, your ancestor, says: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat, your father, nor in the ways of Asa, king of Judah, diff --git a/14-2CH/26.usfm b/14-2CH/26.usfm index dea11e4f..d2cd1bed 100644 --- a/14-2CH/26.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/26.usfm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ \c 26 \p \v 1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. -\v 2 It was he who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his ancestors. +\v 2 It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his ancestors. \v 3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. He reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jechiliah; she was from Jerusalem. \s5 diff --git a/14-2CH/28.usfm b/14-2CH/28.usfm index 3c518541..79a510d8 100644 --- a/14-2CH/28.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/28.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ \s5 \v 3 In addition, he burned incense in the valley of Ben Hinnom and put his children in fire as burnt offerings, following after the desecrations of the people groups which Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel. -\v 4 He sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines, on the hills, and under every green tree. +\v 4 He sacrificed and burned incense at the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. \s5 \p @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ \s5 \v 24 Ahaz gathered together the furnishings of the house of God and cut them to pieces. He shut the doors of the house of Yahweh and he made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. -\v 25 In every city of Judah he made shrines to burn sacrifices to other gods, and in this way provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his ancestors. +\v 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn sacrifices to other gods. He provoked Yahweh, the God of his ancestors, to anger. \s5 \v 26 Now the rest of his deeds, and all his ways, first and last, see, they are written in The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. diff --git a/14-2CH/31.usfm b/14-2CH/31.usfm index d96b8d7d..5dfdfb39 100644 --- a/14-2CH/31.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/31.usfm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ \s5 \c 31 \p -\v 1 Now when all this was finished, all the people of Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke to pieces the sacred stone pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the shrines and the altars in all of Judah and Benjamin. They also did this in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned, every man to his own land and to his own city. +\v 1 Now when all this was finished, all the people of Israel who were there went out to the cities of Judah and broke to pieces the stone pillars and they cut down the Asherah poles, and they broke down the high places and the altars in all of Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned, every one to his own possession and his own city. \s5 \p @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \s5 \v 4 Moreover, he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion for the priests and the Levites, so that they might concentrate on obeying the law of Yahweh. -\v 5 As soon as the command went out, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and from all their harvest of the field; and also the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. +\v 5 As soon as the command went out, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and from all their harvest of the field; and also the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. \s5 \v 6 The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of things that were dedicated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in heaps. diff --git a/14-2CH/32.usfm b/14-2CH/32.usfm index e22ee19f..6b807155 100644 --- a/14-2CH/32.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/32.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ \s5 \v 11 Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, "Yahweh our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria"? -\v 12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his shrines and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "On one altar you will worship, and on it you will burn your sacrifices?" +\v 12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "On one altar you must worship, and on it you must burn your sacrifices?" \s5 \v 13 Do you not know what I and my ancestors have done to all the people groups of other lands? Were the gods of the people groups of the lands able in any way to rescue their land from my power? diff --git a/14-2CH/33.usfm b/14-2CH/33.usfm index afb61e89..542c5ca4 100644 --- a/14-2CH/33.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/33.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \p \v 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. \v 2 He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel. -\v 3 For he rebuilt the shrines that Hezekiah, his father, had pulled down, and he built altars for the Baals, made Asherah poles, and bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them. +\v 3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he built altars for the Baals, he made Asherah poles, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them. \s5 \v 4 Manasseh built pagan altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, "It is in Jerusalem that my name will be placed forever." @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ it and raised the wall up to a very great height. He put courageous commanders i \s5 \v 16 He rebuilt the altar of Yahweh and offered on it sacrifices of fellowship offerings and thank offerings; he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. -\v 17 However, the people still sacrificed at the shrines, but only to Yahweh, their God. +\v 17 However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to Yahweh, their God. \s5 \p \v 18 As to the other matters concerning Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the deeds of the kings of Israel. -\v 19 His prayer also, and how God was begged by him, all his sin and his trespasses, and the places where he had built shrines and set up the Asherah poles and the carved figures, before he humbled himself—they are written about in the Chronicles of the Seers. +\v 19 In that account there is history of his prayer, and how God was moved by it. There is also an account of all his sin and his trespasses, and the places where he had built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the carved figures, before he humbled himself—they are written about in the Chronicles of the Seers. \f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa the Chronicles of Hozai \fqb , which is the reading of the original text. But many modern versions correct it to read \fqa the Chronicles of the Seers \fqb . Also, a few modern versions have \fqa the Chronicles of his seers \fqb . \f* \v 20 So Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in his own house. Amon, his son, became king in his place. diff --git a/14-2CH/34.usfm b/14-2CH/34.usfm index b1895822..c9acbb6e 100644 --- a/14-2CH/34.usfm +++ b/14-2CH/34.usfm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ \p \v 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. \v 2 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his ancestor, and did not turn away either to the right or to the left. -\v 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David, his ancestor. In the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the shrines, the Asherah poles, and the the carved figures, and the cast metal figures. +\v 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David, his ancestor. In the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved figures and the cast metal figures. \s5 \v 4 The people broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; he cut apart the incense altars that were above them. He broke the Asherah poles and the carved figures, and the cast metal figures, in pieces until they were dust. He scattered the dust on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. diff --git a/18-JOB/04.usfm b/18-JOB/04.usfm index c7ac663a..18bf3141 100644 --- a/18-JOB/04.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/04.usfm @@ -44,19 +44,19 @@ \s5 \q -\v 12 Now a certain matter was secretly brought to me; -\q my ear received a whisper about it. +\v 12 Now a certain matter was secretly brought to me +\q and my ear received a whisper about it. \q -\v 13 In thoughts from visions in the night, +\v 13 The came it thoughts from visions in the night, \q when deep sleep falls on people. \s5 \q -\v 14 Fear and trembling came on me, +\v 14 It was at night when fear and trembling came upon me, \q and made all my bones shake. \q -\v 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; -\q the hair of my flesh stood up. +\v 15 Then a spirit passed before my face +\q and the hair of my flesh stood up. \s5 \q diff --git a/18-JOB/05.usfm b/18-JOB/05.usfm index 4ac15e28..58f36876 100644 --- a/18-JOB/05.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/05.usfm @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \q jealousy kills the silly one. \q \v 3 I have seen a foolish person taking root, -\q But suddenly I cursed his home. +\q but suddenly I cursed his home. \s5 \q @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ \v 6 For difficulties do not come out from the soil; \q neither does trouble spring out of the ground; \q -\v 7 But mankind makes his own trouble, +\v 7 but mankind makes his own trouble, \q just as sparks fly upward. \b diff --git a/18-JOB/06.usfm b/18-JOB/06.usfm index 6a7ae859..36bf6001 100644 --- a/18-JOB/06.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/06.usfm @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ \v 19 Caravans from Tema looked there, \q while companies of Sheba hoped in them. \q -\v 20 They were disappointed because they had been confident of finding water; +\v 20 They were disappointed because they had been confident of finding water. \q They went there, but they were deceived. \s5 diff --git a/18-JOB/09.usfm b/18-JOB/09.usfm index 0092dc57..0885bb82 100644 --- a/18-JOB/09.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/09.usfm @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ \q and who covers up the stars, \q \v 8 who by himself stretches out the heavens -\q and who tramples down and subdues the waves of the sea, +\q and tramples down the waves of the sea, \q \v 9 who makes the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, \q and the constellations of the south. diff --git a/18-JOB/13.usfm b/18-JOB/13.usfm index 161c7b74..c98d6e85 100644 --- a/18-JOB/13.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/13.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \p \q \v 1 See, my eye has seen all this; -\q My ear has heard and understood it. +\q my ear has heard and understood it. \q \v 2 What you know, the same I also know; \q I am not inferior to you. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ \q and do not let your terrors make me afraid. \q \v 22 Then call me, and I will answer; -\q Or let me speak to you, and you answer me. +\q or let me speak to you, and you answer me. \s5 \q diff --git a/18-JOB/14.usfm b/18-JOB/14.usfm index 9de904f2..a8b36f10 100644 --- a/18-JOB/14.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/14.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ \q \v 4 Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one. \q -\v 5 Man's days are determined; +\v 5 Man's days are determined. \q The number of his months is with you; \q you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass. \q diff --git a/18-JOB/17.usfm b/18-JOB/17.usfm index 9550bc39..5215de77 100644 --- a/18-JOB/17.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/17.usfm @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 11 My days are past; my plans are over. -\q As for the wishes of my heart ... +\q As for the wishes of my heart ... \f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa My days are past, as are my plans. The wishes of my heart are finished \fqb or \fqa ... the strings of my heart have been broken \fqb . Others have \fqa My days are past; my plans are over, as are the wishes of my heart \fqb \f* \q \v 12 These people, these mockers, change the night into day; diff --git a/18-JOB/18.usfm b/18-JOB/18.usfm index c4d9ce79..3b9bd38b 100644 --- a/18-JOB/18.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/18.usfm @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 14 He will be torn out of his tent, his home in which he now trusts; -\q he will be brought to death, the king of terrors. +\q he will be brought to death—the king of terrors. \q \v 15 People not his own will live in his tent \q after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home. diff --git a/18-JOB/19.usfm b/18-JOB/19.usfm index 946b2cc4..dba5b04d 100644 --- a/18-JOB/19.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/19.usfm @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ \q Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! \q \v 24 Oh, that with an iron pen and lead -\q they were engraven in the rock forever! +\q they were engraved in the rock forever! \s5 \q diff --git a/18-JOB/24.usfm b/18-JOB/24.usfm index 28007fed..0b1c9d86 100644 --- a/18-JOB/24.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/24.usfm @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ \q there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures. \q \v 3 They drive away the donkey of those without fathers; -\q They take the widow's ox as security. +\q they take the widow's ox as security. \q \v 4 They force needy people out of their path; \q poor people of the earth all hide themselves from them. diff --git a/18-JOB/26.usfm b/18-JOB/26.usfm index aafbd6c8..bf54a065 100644 --- a/18-JOB/26.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/26.usfm @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ \q and announced to him sound knowledge! \q \v 4 With whose help have you spoken these words? -\q Whose spirit was it that came out from you?" +\q Whose spirit was it that came out from you? \b \s5 \q -\v 5 Bildad replied, "Those who are deceased, the shades, tremble, +\v 5 Those who are deceased—the shades, tremble, \q those inhabitants beneath the waters. \q \v 6 Sheol is naked before God; diff --git a/18-JOB/31.usfm b/18-JOB/31.usfm index a0b4b3db..c3c3146b 100644 --- a/18-JOB/31.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/31.usfm @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 7 if my step has turned out of the right way, +\v 7 If my step has turned out of the right way, \q if my heart has walked after my eyes, \q if any spot of impurity has clung to my hands, \q diff --git a/18-JOB/38.usfm b/18-JOB/38.usfm index 5478722f..80cdd5de 100644 --- a/18-JOB/38.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/38.usfm @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 16 Have you gone to the sources of the sea waters? +\v 16 Have you gone to the sources of the waters of the sea? \q Have you walked in the lowest parts of the deep? \q \v 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? diff --git a/18-JOB/39.usfm b/18-JOB/39.usfm index b6cf0a29..fbd1d85d 100644 --- a/18-JOB/39.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/39.usfm @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ \v 24 He swallows up ground with fierceness and rage; \q at the trumpet's sound, he cannot stand in one place. \q -\v 25 Whenever the trumpets sounds, he says, 'Aha!' +\v 25 Whenever the trumpet sounds, he says, 'Aha!' \q He smells the battle from far away— \q the thunderous shouts of the commanders and the outcries. \b diff --git a/18-JOB/41.usfm b/18-JOB/41.usfm index 8acac405..4a445d2c 100644 --- a/18-JOB/41.usfm +++ b/18-JOB/41.usfm @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ \q ringed with his teeth, which are a terror? \q \v 15 His back is made up of rows of shields, -\q close together as with a close seal. +\q tight together as with a close seal. \b \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/010.usfm b/19-PSA/010.usfm index 112fd473..15edaa49 100644 --- a/19-PSA/010.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/010.usfm @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ \q Make him account for his evil deeds, \q which he thought you would not discover. \q -\v 16 Yahweh is King for ever and ever; +\v 16 Yahweh is King forever and ever; \q the nations are driven out of his land. \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/014.usfm b/19-PSA/014.usfm index 07f7ab7d..22209769 100644 --- a/19-PSA/014.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/014.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ \q to see if there are any who understand, \q who seek after him. \q -\v 3 Everyone has turned aside; all have become corrupt. +\v 3 They have all turned away. Together they have become corrupt. \q There is no one who does good, no, not one. \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/018.usfm b/19-PSA/018.usfm index abbced13..9f2d5413 100644 --- a/19-PSA/018.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/018.usfm @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ the day that Yahweh rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the ha \s5 \q -\v 33 He makes my feet swift like a deer and places me on the mountains! +\v 33 He makes my feet swift like a deer and places me on the heights! \q \v 34 He trains my hands for war and my arms to bend a bow of bronze. diff --git a/19-PSA/028.usfm b/19-PSA/028.usfm index 0b5fb001..67a3a5aa 100644 --- a/19-PSA/028.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/028.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \d A psalm of David. \b \q -\v 1 To you, Yahweh, I cry out; my Rock, do not ignore me. +\v 1 To you, Yahweh, I cry out; my rock, do not ignore me. \q If you do not respond to me, I will join those who go down to the grave. \q \v 2 Hear the sound of my pleading when I call for help from you, diff --git a/19-PSA/037.usfm b/19-PSA/037.usfm index 1bf3dfe6..eb591eca 100644 --- a/19-PSA/037.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/037.usfm @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ \s5 \q -\v 3 Trust in Yahweh and do what is right; -\q settle in the land and make faithfulness your business. +\v 3 Trust in Yahweh and do what is good; +\q settle in the land and graze in faithfulness. \q \v 4 Then delight yourself in Yahweh, \q and he will give you the desires of your heart. @@ -29,8 +29,13 @@ \s5 \q \v 7 Be still before Yahweh and wait patiently for him. +<<<<<<< HEAD \q Do not be angry if someone succeeds in what he does, \q when he makes evil plots. +======= +\q Do not be distressed about the one who succeeds in what he does, +\q or when he carries out his evil plans. +>>>>>>> origin/master \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/038.usfm b/19-PSA/038.usfm index 9d82e64b..89bba759 100644 --- a/19-PSA/038.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/038.usfm @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ \s5 \q -\v 7 For I am overcome with shame, -\q and my whole body is sick. +\v 7 For within me, I am filled with burning; +\q there is no health in my flesh. \q \v 8 I am numb and utterly crushed; \q I groan because of the anguish of my heart. diff --git a/19-PSA/042.usfm b/19-PSA/042.usfm index a1dfaab1..3d81271b 100644 --- a/19-PSA/042.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/042.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \v 1 As the deer pants after streams of water, \q so I thirst for you, God. \q -\v 2 I thirst for God, for the living God; +\v 2 I thirst for God, for the living God, \q when will I come and appear before God? \s5 @@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ \s5 \q -\v 5 Why are you bowed down, my soul, -\q and why are you worried within me? -\q Hope in God, for I will yet praise him -\q for the help of his presence. +\v 5 Why are you bowed down, my soul? +\q Why are you upset within me? +\q Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation. + + \b \q \v 6 My God, my soul is bowed down within me, @@ -52,9 +53,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 11 Why are you bowed down, my soul? -\q Why are you worried within me? -\q Hope in God, for I will yet praise him, -\q who is the help of my face and my God. - +\q Why are you upset within me? +\q Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God. diff --git a/19-PSA/043.usfm b/19-PSA/043.usfm index 7168a9ed..05748fb0 100644 --- a/19-PSA/043.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/043.usfm @@ -3,27 +3,26 @@ \c 43 \p \q -\v 1 Judge me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. +\v 1 Bring me justice, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. \q -\v 2 For you are the God of my strength; why have you thrown me away? -\q Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? +\v 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? +\q Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? \s5 \q -\v 3 Oh, send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; -\q let them bring me to your holy hill -\q and to your tabernacles. +\v 3 Oh, send out your light and your truth, let them lead me. +\q Let them bring me to your holy hill +\q and to your dwelling. \q \v 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, -\q to God my exceeding joy; -\q and on the harp will I praise you, God, my God. +\q to God my exceeding joy. +\q I will praise you with the harp, God, my God. \s5 \q \v 5 Why are you bowed down, my soul? -\q Why are you worried within me? -\q Hope in God; for I will yet praise him, -\q who is my help and my God. - +\q Why are you upset within me? +\q Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God. + diff --git a/19-PSA/049.usfm b/19-PSA/049.usfm index d900e87a..0a2598e0 100644 --- a/19-PSA/049.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/049.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \v 1 Hear this, all you peoples; \q give ear, all you inhabitants of the world, \q -\v 2 Both low and high, +\v 2 both low and high, \q rich and poor together. \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/055.usfm b/19-PSA/055.usfm index d4f73b20..bc56da9b 100644 --- a/19-PSA/055.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/055.usfm @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 4 My heart is very pained in me, +\v 4 My heart trembles within me, \q and the terrors of death have fallen on me. \q \v 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, diff --git a/19-PSA/056.usfm b/19-PSA/056.usfm index a2611904..04f35349 100644 --- a/19-PSA/056.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/056.usfm @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ of David. A michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. \b \q -\v 1 Be merciful to me, God, for someone wishes to swallow me up; -\q all the day long he fights and oppresses me. +\v 1 Be merciful to me, God, for men are attacking me! +\q All the day long those who fight me press their assault. \q -\v 2 My enemies wish to swallow me up all the day long; +\v 2 My enemies trample me all day long; \q for there are many who arrogantly fight against me. \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/060.usfm b/19-PSA/060.usfm index 715c638c..43d151c5 100644 --- a/19-PSA/060.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/060.usfm @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ \s5 \q \v 2 You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart; -\q heal its breaches, for it is shaking. +\q heal its fissures, for it is shaking. \q -\v 3 You have shown your people severe things; +\v 3 You have made your people see difficult things; \q you have made us drink the wine of staggering. \s5 diff --git a/19-PSA/063.usfm b/19-PSA/063.usfm index d1fe8fca..f06ca380 100644 --- a/19-PSA/063.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/063.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 5 It will be as if ate a meal of marrow and fatness; +\v 5 It will be as if I ate a meal of marrow and fatness; \q with joyful lips my mouth will praise you. \q \v 6 when I think about you on my bed diff --git a/19-PSA/072.usfm b/19-PSA/072.usfm index a4d68d68..4e4fe17c 100644 --- a/19-PSA/072.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/072.usfm @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ \q May people always pray for him; \q may God bless him all day long. \q -\v 16 May there be abundance of grain in the earth on the mountaintops; -\q may their crops wave in the breeze like the trees of Lebanon, -\q and the people in the cities flourish like grass on the earth. +\v 16 May there be abundance of grain in the land; +\q on the mountaintops may their crops wave. +\q May the fruit of it be like Lebanon; +\q may the people flourish in the cities like the grass of the field. \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/073.usfm b/19-PSA/073.usfm index 4b1568c3..86a881c5 100644 --- a/19-PSA/073.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/073.usfm @@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ \s5 \q -\v 8 They mockingly say evil things; -\q they proudly threaten violence. +\v 8 They mock and speak wickedly; +\q they speak loftily of oppression. \q -\v 9 They speak against the heavens, +\v 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, \q and their tongues roam through the earth. \s5 \q -\v 10 Therefore God's people turn to them -\q and drink deeply at their words. +\v 10 Therefore his people return to here +\q and waters of fullness are drained by them. \q \v 11 They say, "How does God know? -\q Does God know what goes on?" +\q Is there knowledge with the Most High?" \q \v 12 Take notice: these people are wicked; \q they are always carefree, becoming richer and richer. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ \v 13 Surely it is in vain that I have guarded my heart \q and washed my hands in innocence. \q -\v 14 For all the day long have I been afflicted +\v 14 For all the day long I have been afflicted \q and disciplined every morning. \q \v 15 If I had said, "I will say these things," diff --git a/19-PSA/074.usfm b/19-PSA/074.usfm index 1b821bbb..a30b25a9 100644 --- a/19-PSA/074.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/074.usfm @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ \v 1 God, why have you rejected us forever? \q Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture? \q -\v 2 Call to mind your people, whom you redeemed in ancient times, -\q whom you have purchased to be your own heritage, +\v 2 Call to mind your people, whom you purchased in ancient times, +\q the tribe whom you have redeemed to be your own heritage, \q and Mount Zion, where you live. \s5 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ to the ground. \s5 \q -\v 9 We do not see any more miraculous signs from God; +\v 9 We do not see any more signs; \q there is no prophet any more, \q and no one among us knows how long this will last. \q @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ to the ground. \q for the dark regions of the earth are full of places of violence. \q \v 21 Do not let the oppressed be turned back in shame; -\q may the poor and oppressed praise your name. +\q let the poor and oppressed praise your name. \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/075.usfm b/19-PSA/075.usfm index 4ae63c0b..8e133160 100644 --- a/19-PSA/075.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/075.usfm @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ \s5 \q \v 7 But God is the judge; -\q he brings one down and raises up another. +\q he brings one down and raises up another. \q -\v 8 For Yahweh holds a cup in his hand of foaming wine, +\v 8 For Yahweh holds in his hand a cup of foaming wine, \q which is mixed with spices, and pours it out. \q Surely all the wicked of the earth will drink it to the last drop. diff --git a/19-PSA/076.usfm b/19-PSA/076.usfm index e03ff8c4..d32e0c75 100644 --- a/19-PSA/076.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/076.usfm @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ \s5 \q -\v 8 Your judgment came from heaven; -\q the earth was afraid and silent. +\v 8 From heaven you made your judgment heard; +\q the earth was afraid and silent \q -\v 9 You, God, arose to execute judgment +\v 9 when you, God, arose to execute judgment \q and to save all the oppressed of the earth. \qs Selah\qs* @@ -51,8 +51,5 @@ \v 11 Make vows to Yahweh your God and keep them. \q May all who surround him bring gifts to him who is to be feared. \q -\v 12 He humbles the spirit of the princes; -\q he is feared by the kings of the earth. - - - +\v 12 He cuts off the spirit of the princes; +\q he is feared by the kings of the earth. diff --git a/19-PSA/077.usfm b/19-PSA/077.usfm index f7649fef..fc069823 100644 --- a/19-PSA/077.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/077.usfm @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ \q \v 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; \q at night I stretched my hands out, and they would not become tired. -\q I refused to be comforted. +\q My soul refused to be comforted. \q \v 3 I thought of God as I groaned; -\q I thought about him as I grew faint. +\q I thought about him as I grew faint. \qs Selah\qs* \b @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 10 I said, "This is my sorrow: -\q the changing of the Almighty's right hand toward us." +\q the changing of the right hand of the Most High toward us." \s5 \q @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ \q the depths trembled. \q \v 17 The clouds poured down water; -\q the skies thundered; -\q your arrows flashed about. +\q the cloudy skies gave voice; +\q your arrows flew about. \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/078.usfm b/19-PSA/078.usfm index 16d6aec2..89c4a73f 100644 --- a/19-PSA/078.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/078.usfm @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 12 Marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors +\v 12 They forgot the marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors \q in the land of Egypt, in the land of Zoan. \q \v 13 He divided the sea and led them across it; @@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ them. \q to this mountain that his right hand acquired. \q \v 55 He drove out the nations from before them -\q and assigned them their inheritance; -\q he settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. +\q and assigned them their inheritance. +\q He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. \s5 \q @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ them. \s5 \q -\v 58 For they made him angry with their pagan shrines +\v 58 For they made him angry with their high places \q and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols. \q \v 59 When God heard this, he was angry diff --git a/19-PSA/079.usfm b/19-PSA/079.usfm index 9c76e0fa..700e6e92 100644 --- a/19-PSA/079.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/079.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 4 We have become a reproach for our neighbors to make, +\v 4 We have become a reproach for our neighbors, \q mocking and derision to those who are around us. \q \v 5 How long, Yahweh? Will you stay angry forever? diff --git a/19-PSA/080.usfm b/19-PSA/080.usfm index 8bbff2b4..ba53b7fc 100644 --- a/19-PSA/080.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/080.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ \q it took root and filled the land. \q \v 10 The mountains were covered with its shade, -\q the highest cedars of God by its branches. +\q the cedars of God by its branches. \q \v 11 It sent out its branches as far as the sea \q and its shoots to the Euphrates River. @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ \v 15 This is the root that your right hand planted, \q the shoot that you made to grow. \q -\v 16 It is burned and cut down; -\q may your enemies perish because of your rebuke. +\v 16 It has been burned and cut down; +\q they perish because of your rebuke. \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/084.usfm b/19-PSA/084.usfm index 2d6080ed..f81a9d71 100644 --- a/19-PSA/084.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/084.usfm @@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ \s5 \q \v 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, -\q in whose heart are the highways to Zion. +\q in whose heart are the highways up to Zion. \q -\v 6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they find springs of water to drink. -\q The early rains cover it with pools of water. +\v 6 Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink. +\q The early rains cover it with blessings. +\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa with pools of water \fqb . \f* \s5 \q diff --git a/19-PSA/091.usfm b/19-PSA/091.usfm index 747bf14f..6fab33bf 100644 --- a/19-PSA/091.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/091.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ \v 1 He who lives in the shelter of the Most High \q will stay in the shadow of the Almighty. \q -\v 2 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my shelter and my fortress, +\v 2 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress, \q my God, in whom I trust." \s5 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 12 They will lift you up with their hand -\q so that you will not slip and fall on a stone. +\q so that you will not hit your foot on a stone. \q \v 13 You will crush lions and adders under your feet; \q you will trample on young lions and serpents. @@ -64,7 +64,5 @@ \q I will give him victory and will honor him. \q \v 16 I will satisfy him with long life -\q and show him my salvation. - - +\q and show him my salvation. diff --git a/19-PSA/105.usfm b/19-PSA/105.usfm index 2678229e..2a66ac59 100644 --- a/19-PSA/105.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/105.usfm @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ \q They ate up all the crops of the ground. \q \v 36 He killed every firstborn in their land, -\q the first fruits of all their strength. +\q the firstfruits of all their strength. \s5 \q diff --git a/20-PRO/08.usfm b/20-PRO/08.usfm index 14d9df42..3713e2e6 100644 --- a/20-PRO/08.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/08.usfm @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ \s5 \q \v 14 I have good advice and sound wisdom; -\q I have insight, and strength belongs to me. +\q I am insight; strength belongs to me. \q \v 15 By me kings reign— \q also noblemen, and all who govern justly. diff --git a/20-PRO/10.usfm b/20-PRO/10.usfm index 31539724..f2a2455c 100644 --- a/20-PRO/10.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/10.usfm @@ -40,10 +40,11 @@ \s5 \q \v 10 He who winks the eye causes grief, -\q but a talkative fool will be ruined. +\q but a talkative fool will be thrown down. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa but one who bravely corrects makes peace \fqb . \f* \q -\v 11 The mouth of one who does right is a fountain of life, -\q but the mouth of the wicked hides violence. +\v 11 The mouth of one who does right is a water spring of life, +\q but the mouth of the wicked covers up violence. \s5 \q diff --git a/20-PRO/21.usfm b/20-PRO/21.usfm index a98c877f..8fe90f80 100644 --- a/20-PRO/21.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/21.usfm @@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ \s5 \q -\v 29 A wicked man makes himself seem strong, -\q but an upright person is careful about his actions. +\v 29 A wicked man makes his face hard, +\q but an upright person is certain about his ways. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa but an upright person thinks about his way \fqb . \f* \s5 \q diff --git a/20-PRO/25.usfm b/20-PRO/25.usfm index 767e7fdf..312153f7 100644 --- a/20-PRO/25.usfm +++ b/20-PRO/25.usfm @@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ \s5 \q \v 27 It is not good to eat too much honey; -\q that is like searching for honor upon honor. +\q that is like searching for honor after honor. +\f + \ft Modern versions have different interpretations of this difficult verse. \f* \q \v 28 A person without self-control \q is like a city breached and without walls. diff --git a/21-ECC/02.usfm b/21-ECC/02.usfm index 0538ea51..deee1b27 100644 --- a/21-ECC/02.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/02.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ \s5 \v 7 I purchased male slaves and female slaves; I had slaves born in my palace. I also had large herds and flocks of livestock, much more than any king who ruled before me in Jerusalem. -\v 8 I accumulated for myself silver and gold, the treasures of kings and provinces. I had male and female singers for myself; by means of numerous wives and concubines, I did things that would bring pleasure to any man on earth. +\v 8 I also accumulated for myself silver and gold, the treasures of kings and provinces. I got male and female singers for myself, and delights of the sons of men, concubines and wives. +\f + \ft Modern versions interpret the last part of this verse in different ways: \fqa everything that pleases people \fqb , \fqa concubines and everything that pleases men \fqb , etc. \f* \s5 \v 9 So I became greater and wealthier than all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom remained with me. diff --git a/21-ECC/03.usfm b/21-ECC/03.usfm index 8d9ab410..5e13d1ee 100644 --- a/21-ECC/03.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/03.usfm @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ \v 15 Whatever exists has already existed; \q2 whatever will exist has already existed. \q1 God makes human beings seek hidden things. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa God makes human beings seek hidden things \fqb , other modern versions interpret this line in different ways. \f* \s5 \v 16 And I have seen that under the sun wickedness exists where there should be justice, and in place of righteousness wickedness is often found. @@ -56,11 +57,12 @@ \v 18 I said in my heart, "God tests human beings to show them that they are like animals." \s5 -\v 19 For the same fate happens to human beings that happens to animals. Like animals, people all die. They all must breathe the same air, so in that way mankind has no advantage over the animals. Is not everything just a rapid breath? +\v 19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same fate for them. The death of one is like the death of the other. The breath is the same for all of them. There is no advantage for mankind over the animals. For is not everything just a breath? \v 20 Everything is going to the same place. Everything comes from the dust, and everything returns to the dust. \s5 \v 21 Who knows whether the spirit of mankind goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth? +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa Who knows the spirit of mankind, which goes upward, and the spirit of animals, which goes downward into the earth? \fqb \f* \v 22 So again I realized that there is nothing better for anyone than to take pleasure in his work, for that is his assignment. Who can bring him back to see what happens after him? diff --git a/21-ECC/07.usfm b/21-ECC/07.usfm index 8110f2b3..76954c48 100644 --- a/21-ECC/07.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/07.usfm @@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ \q2 Why should you die before your time? \q1 \v 18 It is good that you should take hold of this wisdom, -\q2 and that you should not withdraw your hand from righteousness. +\q2 and that you should not let go of righteousness. \q1 For the person who fears God will meet all his obligations. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa will meet all his obligations \fqb , some modern versions have different interpretations of this difficult passage. \f* \s5 \q1 @@ -122,10 +123,10 @@ \q2 but the sinner will be taken by her. \s5 -\v 27 "Consider what I have discovered," says the Teacher. I have been adding one discovery to another in order to find an explanation of reality. +\v 27 "Consider what I have discovered," says the Teacher. "I have been adding one discovery to another in order to find an explanation of reality. \v 28 This is what I am still looking, but I have not found it. I did find one righteous man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I did not find. \s5 -\v 29 I have discovered only this: that God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties. +\v 29 I have discovered only this: that God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties." diff --git a/21-ECC/08.usfm b/21-ECC/08.usfm index f600f8cd..ccef1ae9 100644 --- a/21-ECC/08.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/08.usfm @@ -27,15 +27,19 @@ \s5 \q1 -\v 8 No one has power over the breath of life to stop breathing, +\v 8 No one is ruler over his breath so as to stop the breath, +\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa No one is ruler over the wind so as to stop the wind \fqb . \f* \q2 and no one has power over the day of his death. \q1 No one is discharged from the army during a battle, \q2 and wickedness will not rescue those who are its slaves. +\q1 \v 9 I have realized all this; I have applied my heart to every kind of work that is done under the sun. -There is a time when a person has power to do evil to others. +There is a time when a person oppresses another person to that person's hurt. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa to his own hurt \fqb . The Hebrew passage can be interpreted either way. \f* \s5 \v 10 So I saw the wicked buried publicly. They were taken from the holy area and buried and were praised by people in the city where they had done their wicked deeds. This also is uselessness. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have other interpretations of this difficult verse: \fqa I saw wicked people come and go into the holy place. They proudly spoke in the city about the things they had done. This also is uselessness. \fqb Other versions have \fqa I saw wicked people come and go into the holy place. They were praised in the city for the things they had done. This also is uselessness. \fqb \f* \v 11 When a sentence against an evil crime is not executed quickly, it entices the hearts of human beings to do evil. \s5 diff --git a/21-ECC/09.usfm b/21-ECC/09.usfm index 527c6fea..32eb226d 100644 --- a/21-ECC/09.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/09.usfm @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ \s5 \v 2 Everyone has the same fate. The same fate awaits \q1 righteous people and wicked, -\q1 good people and bad, +\q1 the good, +\f + \ft Some modern versions copy ancient versions which have \fqa the good and the bad \fqb . In this way, they make the phrase complete. Translators may decide to imitate them. \f* \q1 the clean and the unclean, \q1 and the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As good people will die, @@ -20,7 +21,8 @@ As the one who swears will die, \v 3 There is an evil fate for everything that is done under the sun, one destiny for everyone. The hearts of human beings are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live. So after that they go to the dead. \s5 -\v 4 For there is still hope for someone who is alive, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion. +\v 4 For anyone who is united to all the living, there is hope, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa For what is preferable? For all the living, this is sure: a living dog is better than a dead lion \fqb . \f* \q1 \v 5 For living people know they will die, \q1 but the dead do not know anything. @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ As the one who swears will die, \s5 \v 9 Live happily with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of uselessness, the days that God has given you under the sun during your days of uselessness. That is your reward in life for your work under the sun. -\v 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, work at it with your strength, because there is no work or explanation or knowledge or wisdom in the grave, the place where you are going. +\v 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, work at it with your strength, because there is no work or explanation or knowledge or wisdom in sheol, where you are going. \s5 \v 11 I have seen some interesting things under the sun: diff --git a/21-ECC/10.usfm b/21-ECC/10.usfm index f849ce8f..0d4a685e 100644 --- a/21-ECC/10.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/10.usfm @@ -73,13 +73,12 @@ but wisdom provides an advantage for success. \s5 \q1 -\v 16 There is trouble in the land if your king is young, -\q2 and your leaders begin feasting in the morning! +\v 16 Woe to you, land, if your king is a young boy, +\q2 and if your leaders begin feasting in the morning! \q1 -\v 17 But the land is happy when your king is the son of nobles, -\q2 and your leaders eat when it is time to eat -\q2 and they do so for strength, -\q2 not for drunkenness! +\v 17 But blessed are you, land, if your king is the son of nobles, +\q2 and if your leaders eat at the right time, +\q2 for strength, and not for drunkenness! \s5 \q1 diff --git a/21-ECC/11.usfm b/21-ECC/11.usfm index 4e1a7eef..a427bd8e 100644 --- a/21-ECC/11.usfm +++ b/21-ECC/11.usfm @@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ \v 4 Anyone who watches the wind might not plant, \q2 and anyone who watches the clouds might not harvest. \q1 -\v 5 As you do not know from where the wind will come, -\q2 nor how a baby's bones grow in the womb of its mother, +\v 5 As you do not know the path of the wind, +\q2 nor how a baby's bones grow in the pregnant womb, +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa As you do not know the path of the spirit to the baby's bones in the pregnant womb \fqb . \f* \q1 so also you cannot comprehend the work of God, \q2 who created everything. diff --git a/22-SNG/01.usfm b/22-SNG/01.usfm index 17709321..dcb89a06 100644 --- a/22-SNG/01.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/01.usfm @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ \s5 \sp The woman speaking to the other women \q -\v 5 The woman speaking to the other women I am dark but lovely, +\v 5 I am dark but lovely, \q you daughters of Jerusalem's men— \q dark like the tents of Kedar, \q lovely like the curtains of Solomon. diff --git a/22-SNG/03.usfm b/22-SNG/03.usfm index c4220078..585474fd 100644 --- a/22-SNG/03.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/03.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ \q perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, \q with all powders sold by merchants? \q -\v 7 Look, it is the portable litter of Solomon; +\v 7 Look, it is the bed frame of Solomon; \q sixty warriors surround it, \q sixty soldiers of Israel. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ \q \v 11 Go out, daughters of Zion's men, and gaze on King Solomon, \q bearing the crown with which his mother crowned him -\q on his marriage day, +\q on his wedding day, \q on that happy day of his life. diff --git a/22-SNG/04.usfm b/22-SNG/04.usfm index 5c002da1..38e96ec0 100644 --- a/22-SNG/04.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/04.usfm @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ shorn ewes, \v 12 My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, \q a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed. \q -\v 13 Your branches are a grove of pomegranate trees with choice fruit, +\v 13 Your branches are a grove of pomegranate trees with choice fruits, \q and of henna and nard plants, \q \v 14 Spikenard and saffron, diff --git a/22-SNG/05.usfm b/22-SNG/05.usfm index c4f91ce5..3de967db 100644 --- a/22-SNG/05.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/05.usfm @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ \v 16 His mouth is most sweet; \q he is completely lovely. \q This is my beloved, and this is my friend, -\q daughters of Jerusalem's men. +\q daughters of Jerusalem. diff --git a/22-SNG/08.usfm b/22-SNG/08.usfm index 970fc151..127e2750 100644 --- a/22-SNG/08.usfm +++ b/22-SNG/08.usfm @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ \q and some of the juice of my pomegranates. \sp The young woman speaking to herself \q -\v 3 His left hand is holding my head; -\q his right hand is embracing me. +\v 3 His left hand is under my head +\q and his right hand embraces me. \s5 \p @@ -85,10 +85,9 @@ \s5 \sp The young woman speaking to herself \q -\v 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon; -\q he leased the vineyard to those who would maintain it. +\v 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. +\q He leased the vineyard to those who would maintain it. \q Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. -of \q \v 12 My vineyard is my very own; \q the thousand shekels belong to you, my dear Solomon, diff --git a/23-ISA/01.usfm b/23-ISA/01.usfm index d1bb4663..5b1792f9 100644 --- a/23-ISA/01.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/01.usfm @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ the fat of fatted beasts; \q1 stop being evil; \q1 \v 17 learn to do good; -\q1 seek justice, help the oppressed, +\q1 seek justice, make straight the oppression, +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa make straight the oppression \fqb , some versions have \fqa help the oppressed \fqb . \f* \q1 give justice to the fatherless, defend the widow." \s5 @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ the fat of fatted beasts; \q1 \v 23 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves; \q1 everyone loves bribes and runs after payoffs. -\q1 they do not defend the fatherless, nor does the widow's legal plea come before them. +\q1 They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the widow's legal plea come before them. \s5 \p @@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ the fat of fatted beasts; \q1 "Woe to them! I will take vengeance against my adversaries, and avenge myself against my enemies; \q1 \v 25 I will turn my hand against you, -\q1 refine away your dross, and take away all your impurities. +\q1 refine away your dross as with lye, and take away all your dross. \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/02.usfm b/23-ISA/02.usfm index 3bdce935..351e0521 100644 --- a/23-ISA/02.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/02.usfm @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ with customs from the east and are omen readers like the Philistines, \s5 \q1 -\v 9 The people will be bowed down, and individuals will fall down; therefore do not accept them. +\v 9 The people will be bowed down, and individuals will fall down; therefore do not raise them up. \q1 \v 10 Go into the rocky places and hide in the ground \q1 from the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty. diff --git a/23-ISA/04.usfm b/23-ISA/04.usfm index 91042b95..7846dccb 100644 --- a/23-ISA/04.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/04.usfm @@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ \c 4 \p \v 1 On that day seven women will take hold of one man -and say, "Our own food we will eat, our own clothing we will wear -but let us take your name to remove our shame." +and say, "Our own food we will eat, our own clothing we will wear. +But let us take your name to remove our shame." \p \v 2 On that day the branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be tasty and delightful for those survivors in Israel. \s5 \v 3 Then, he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, will be called holy, every one who is recorded as living in Jerusalem, -\v 4 when the Lord will have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and will have cleansed the blood stains from Jerusalem's midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning fire. +\v 4 when the Lord will have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and will have cleansed the blood stains from Jerusalem's midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning fire. - \s5 - \v 5 Then Yahweh will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; a canopy over all the glory. +\s5 +\v 5 Then Yahweh will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; a canopy over all the glory. \v 6 It will be a shelter for shade in the daytime from the heat, and a refuge and a cover from the storm and rain. diff --git a/23-ISA/05.usfm b/23-ISA/05.usfm index bef53f4c..2473541b 100644 --- a/23-ISA/05.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/05.usfm @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ \v 9 Yahweh of hosts told me, \q1 many houses will be empty, even great and impressive ones, without inhabitant. \q1 -\v 10 For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only one bath, and one homer of seed will yield only an ephah. +\v 10 For a ten-yoke vineyard will yield only one bath, and one homer of seed will yield only an ephah. \s5 \q1 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ \v 13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of understanding; \q1 their leaders go hungry, and their masses have nothing to drink. \q1 -\v 14 Therefore death has made its appetite greater and has opened its mouth very wide; +\v 14 Therefore sheol has made its appetite greater and has opened its mouth very wide; \q1 their elite, the people, their leaders, and the revelers and those who are happy among them, descend into sheol. \s5 @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ \q1 \v 16 Yahweh of hosts is exalted in his justice, and God the Holy One shows himself holy by his righteousness. \q1 -\v 17 Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins of the rich people, lambs will graze. +\v 17 Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners. +\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze \fqb . \f* \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/07.usfm b/23-ISA/07.usfm index cc665024..98b87284 100644 --- a/23-ISA/07.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/07.usfm @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not prevail against it. \v 2 It was reported to the house of David that Aram was allied with Ephraim. His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest shake in the wind. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa ... that Aram was allied with Ephraim \fqb , some versions have \fqa ... that Aram had camped in Ephraim. \fqb \f* \s5 \p @@ -36,8 +37,8 @@ remain secure."'" \v 12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test Yahweh." \s5 -\v 13 So Isaiah replied, "Listen, house of David. Is it not enough for you to test the patience of people? Must you also test the patience of my God? -\v 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: see, a young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name +\v 13 So Isaiah replied, "Listen, house of David. Is it not enough for you people to test the patience of people? Must you also test the patience of my God? +\v 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you people a sign: see, a young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel. \v 15 He will eat curds and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. @@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ desolate. \q1 and for a bee from the land of Assyria. \q1 \v 19 They will all come and settle down into all the gorges, into the clefts of the rocks, -\q1 on all the thorn bushes, and onto all the pastures. +\q1 on all the thornbushes, and onto all the pastures. \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/09.usfm b/23-ISA/09.usfm index 2b07d7c3..ce09b9c7 100644 --- a/23-ISA/09.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/09.usfm @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ \q1 \v 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; \q1 those who have lived in the land of the shadow of death, the light has shone on them. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa the shadow of death \fqb , some versions have \fqa darkness \fqb . \f* \s5 \q1 @@ -82,18 +83,18 @@ hand will still be raised to strike. \v 18 Wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns; \q1 it even burns the thickets of the forest, which rise in a column of smoke. \q1 -\v 19 Through the overflowing anger of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire. +\v 19 Through the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire. \q1 No man spares his brother. \s5 \q1 -\v 20 They will slice meat off the right hand and still be hungry; they will eat meat off the left hand but will not be +\v 20 They will grab food on the right hand but still be hungry; they will eat food on the left hand but will not be satisfied. \q1 Each will even eat the flesh of his own arm. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa the flesh of his own arm \fqb , some versions have \fqa the flesh of his own children \fqb . \f* \q1 \v 21 Manasseh will devour Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will attack Judah. -\q1 For all this Yahweh's anger will not subside, - but his hand will still be raised to strike. +\q1 For all this Yahweh's anger will not subside. Instead, his hand will still be raised to strike. diff --git a/23-ISA/10.usfm b/23-ISA/10.usfm index 6c43b783..6f2e88be 100644 --- a/23-ISA/10.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/10.usfm @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ help, and where will you leave your wealth? \v 13 For he says, \q1 "By my strength and by my wisdom I acted. I have understanding, \q1 and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples. I have stolen their treasures, -\q1 and like a mighty man I have brought down those who sit on thrones. +\q1 and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants. \s5 \q1 @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ He will strike you with the rod and raise his staff against you, as the Egyptian \v 26 Then Yahweh of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he defeated Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise his rod over the sea and lift it up as he did in Egypt. \v 27 On that day, \q1 his burden is lifted from your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, -\q1 and the yoke will be destroyed because your neck will be too fat for it. +\q1 and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness. +\f + \ft The last line of this verse is difficult because it does not seem to fit the context. Some modern versions leave out \fqa because of fatness \fqb . Other modern versions have \fqa and the yoke will be destroyed from off your neck. He has gone up from Rimmon. \fqb Here \fqa He \fqb means the Assyrian king and his army. \f* \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/11.usfm b/23-ISA/11.usfm index 178cece0..86b74a8e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/11.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/11.usfm @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ his people who remain in Assyria, Egypt, \q1 and the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. \q1 -\v 13 He will stop the envy of Ephraim, and those hostile to Judah will be cut off. +\v 13 He will turn aside the envy of Ephraim, and hostilities of Judah will be cut off. \q1 Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile to Ephraim. diff --git a/23-ISA/14.usfm b/23-ISA/14.usfm index e3843391..1906a35c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/14.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/14.usfm @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ \v 3 On the day that Yahweh gives you rest from your suffering and anguish, and from the hard labor which you were required to perform, \v 4 you will sing this taunt song against the king of Babylon, \q1 "How the oppressor has come to an end, the proud fury ended! +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa the proud fury ended \fqb , some versions have \fqa the golden city ended \fqb , \fqa the turmoil ended \fqb , \fqa the hostility ended \fqb , or \fqa the arrogance ended \fqb . \f* \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/15.usfm b/23-ISA/15.usfm index f6a0adfb..039603f2 100644 --- a/23-ISA/15.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/15.usfm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ \q1 Indeed, in one night Ar of Moab is laid waste and destroyed; \q1 indeed, in one night Kir of Moab is laid waste and destroyed. \q1 -\v 2 They have gone up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to weep; +\v 2 They have gone up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the heights to weep; \q1 Moab laments over Nebo and over Medeba. \q1 All their heads are shaved bare and all their beards are cut off. diff --git a/23-ISA/19.usfm b/23-ISA/19.usfm index 4789ae74..1d87d404 100644 --- a/23-ISA/19.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/19.usfm @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have made Egypt go astray, who are the cornerstones of her tribes. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Memphis \fqb , some versions have \fqa Noph \fqb , the Hebrew name for the same city in Egypt. \f* \q1 \v 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of distortion into her midst, \q1 and they have led Egypt astray in all she does, like a drunk staggering in his vomit. @@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ \s5 \v 18 In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to Yahweh of hosts. One of these cities will be called The City of the Sun. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa The City of the Sun \fqb , which probably refers to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, some ancient and modern versions have \fqa The City of Destruction \fqb . \f* \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/21.usfm b/23-ISA/21.usfm index 1ec41563..4b4388c0 100644 --- a/23-ISA/21.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/21.usfm @@ -31,17 +31,18 @@ \v 6 For this is what the Lord said to me, \q1 "Go, post a watchman; he must report what he sees. \q1 -\v 7 When he sees a chariot, horsemen in pairs, -\q1 riders on donkeys, riders on camels, +\v 7 When he sees a chariot, a pair of horsemen, +\q1 riders on donkeys, and riders on camels, \q1 then he must pay attention and be very alert." \s5 \q1 -\v 8 The watcher cries out, +\v 8 The watchman cries out, +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa The watchman cries out \fqb , some older versions have \fqa A lion cries out \fqb . \f* \q1 "Lord, on the watchtower I stand all day, every day, \q1 and at my post I stand all night long." \q1 -\v 9 Here comes a charioteer with a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. +\v 9 Here comes a chariot with a man and a pair of horsemen. \q1 He calls out, "Babylon has fallen, fallen, \q1 and all the carved figures of its gods are broken to the ground." diff --git a/23-ISA/22.usfm b/23-ISA/22.usfm index b7381728..6cd517fd 100644 --- a/23-ISA/22.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/22.usfm @@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ \s5 \q1 -\v 23 I will fasten him like a nail in a secure place, -\q1 and he will become a throne of glory to his father's house. +\v 23 I will fasten him, a peg in a secure place, +\q1 and he will become a seat of glory for his father's house. \q1 -\v 24 They will hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and descendants, every small vessel +\v 24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and descendants, every small container \q1 from the cups to all the jugs. \s5 diff --git a/23-ISA/23.usfm b/23-ISA/23.usfm index 98a552cf..576dcf39 100644 --- a/23-ISA/23.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/23.usfm @@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ \p \v 1 A declaration about Tyre: \q1 Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for there is neither home nor harbor; -\q1 from the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them. +\q1 from the land of Cyprus it has been revealed to them. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Cyprus \fqb , some modern versions keep \fqa Kittim \fqb , the Hebrew name for this island. \f* \q1 -\v 2 Be astounded, you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, -\q1 who travel over the sea, whose agents supply you. +\v 2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast; the merchant of Sidon, +\q1 who travels over the sea, has filled you. +\f + \ft Some ancient and modern versions have \fqa Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who travel over the sea, have filled you \fqb or \fqa Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast and you merchants of Sidon, whom those who travel over the sea have filled \fqb . \f* \q1 -\v 3 And on great waters -\q1 the grain of the Shihor region, the harvest of the Nile, was brought to Tyre; she was the marketplace of nations. +\v 3 And on great waters was the grain of Shihor, +\q1 the harvest of the Nile, her produce; you were the commerce of nations. \s5 \v 4 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the mighty one of the sea. He says, @@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ \s5 \q1 \v 10 Plow your land, as one plows the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no longer a marketplace in Tyre. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Plow your land \fqb , some versions have \fqa Pass through your land \fqb or \fqa Overflow your land \fqb . \f* \q1 \v 11 Yahweh has reached out with his hand over the sea, and he has shaken the kingdoms; \q1 he has given a command concerning Phoenicia, to destroy the strongholds. diff --git a/23-ISA/24.usfm b/23-ISA/24.usfm index 05ab83ff..f46c456f 100644 --- a/23-ISA/24.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/24.usfm @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ \q1 and the kings of the earth on the earth. \q1 \v 22 They will be gathered together, prisoners in a pit, and will be shut up in a prison; -\q1 and after many days they will be sentenced. +\q1 and after many days they will be punished. \q1 \v 23 Then the moon will be ashamed, and the sun disgraced, for Yahweh of hosts will reign \q1 on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory. diff --git a/23-ISA/25.usfm b/23-ISA/25.usfm index 82ef54f5..dbf7a6a8 100644 --- a/23-ISA/25.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/25.usfm @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ \s5 \q1 -\v 11 They will spread their hands in the midst of it, as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim; -\q1 but Yahweh will bring down their pride in spite of the struggles of their hands. +\v 11 They will spread their hands in the midst of it, as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim. +\q1 But Yahweh will bring down their pride in spite of the skill of their hands. \q1 \v 12 Your high fortress walls he will bring down to the ground, to the dust. diff --git a/23-ISA/26.usfm b/23-ISA/26.usfm index 88ca2231..c60322d2 100644 --- a/23-ISA/26.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/26.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ \v 7 The path of the righteous is level, Righteous One; the path of the righteous you make straight. \p \q1 -\v 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we wait for you; +\v 8 Yes, in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, we wait for you; \q1 your name and your reputation are our desire. \q1 \v 9 I have longed for you in the night; yes, my spirit within me seeks you earnestly. @@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ \s5 \p \q1 -\v 16 Yahweh, in trouble have they looked to you; they even uttered incantations against evil when your discipline was on them. +\v 16 Yahweh, in trouble have they looked to you; they whispered prayers when your discipline was on them. +\f + \ft This difficult verse has many different translations among modern versions. \f* \q1 -\v 17 Like when a pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains; +\v 17 As a pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, when she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains, \q1 so we have been before you, Lord. \s5 diff --git a/23-ISA/27.usfm b/23-ISA/27.usfm index 83ac6338..d75e3773 100644 --- a/23-ISA/27.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/27.usfm @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ \v 7 Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been killed as in the slaughter of those nations that were killed by them? \q1 \v 8 In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his severe wind, on the day of the east wind. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa In exact measure \fqb , many modern versions have an idea similar to \fqa By driving them away \fqb . \f* \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/28.usfm b/23-ISA/28.usfm index 5feb69e0..a8925781 100644 --- a/23-ISA/28.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/28.usfm @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ \q1 \v 25 When he has prepared the ground, does he not scatter caraway seed, sow the cumin, \q1 put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the right place, and the spelt at its edges? +\f + \ft The identification of some of these spices is in doubt, so versions have a variety of translations. In addition, some versions give different interpretations to the expressions translated here as \fqa in rows \fqb and \fqa in the right place \fqb , because these expressions are uncertain in Hebrew. \f* \q1 \v 26 His God instructs him; he teaches him wisely. diff --git a/23-ISA/29.usfm b/23-ISA/29.usfm index 6ae17d21..44811202 100644 --- a/23-ISA/29.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/29.usfm @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ \q1 \v 13 The Lord said, "This people comes close to me with their mouths \q1 and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. -\q1 Their honor for me is only something taught by people. +\q1 Their honor for me is only a commandment of men that has been taught. \q1 \v 14 Therefore, see, I will proceed to do a marvelous thing among this people, wonder after wonder. \q1 The wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will disappear." diff --git a/23-ISA/33.usfm b/23-ISA/33.usfm index 2485378c..12bcd2cc 100644 --- a/23-ISA/33.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/33.usfm @@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ \v 7 Look, their envoys cry in the streets; the diplomats hoping for peace weep bitterly. \q1 \v 8 The highways are deserted; there are no more travelers. -\q1 Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, and cities are disrespected. +\q1 Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, and mankind is not respected. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa witness are despised \fqb , some versions have \fqa cities are despised \fqb . \f* \s5 \q1 -\v 9 The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; +\v 9 The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away; +\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa The land dries up and withers away \fqb . \f* \q1 Sharon is like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. \s5 @@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ \q1 \v 11 You conceive chaff, and you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. \q1 -\v 12 The peoples will be burned to lime, as thorn bushes are cut down and are burned. +\v 12 The peoples will be burned to lime, as thornbushes are cut down and are burned. \s5 \p diff --git a/23-ISA/34.usfm b/23-ISA/34.usfm index b7e7e001..cdd17d0e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/34.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/34.usfm @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ \s5 \q1 -\v 3 Their slain will be left unburied; the stench of their dead bodies will be everywhere, -\q1 and the mountains will be dissolved by their blood. +\v 3 The bodies of their dead will be thrown out. The stench of the dead bodies will be everywhere; +\q1 and the mountains will soak up their blood. \q1 \v 4 All the stars of the sky will fade away, \q1 and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; and all their stars will fade away, diff --git a/23-ISA/36.usfm b/23-ISA/36.usfm index 2c5e71ed..9f78559d 100644 --- a/23-ISA/36.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/36.usfm @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ \s5 \v 6 Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed that you use as a walking staff, but if a man leans on it, it will stick into his hand and pierce it. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to anyone who trusts in him. -\v 7 But if you say to me, "We are trusting in Yahweh our God," is not he the one whose shrines and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"? +\v 7 But if you say to me, "We are trusting in Yahweh our God," is not he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"? \s5 \v 8 Now therefore, I want to make you a good offer from my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to find riders for them. diff --git a/23-ISA/37.usfm b/23-ISA/37.usfm index d52ae668..c57b8895 100644 --- a/23-ISA/37.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/37.usfm @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet. \q1 I will cut down its tall cedars and choice fir trees there, \q1 and I will enter into its farthest high places, its most fruitful forest. \q1 -\v 25 I have dug wells and drank foreign water; +\v 25 I have dug wells and drunk water; +\f + \ft Some ancient and modern versions have \fqa I have dug wells and drunk water in foreign lands \fqb . \f* \q1 I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet.' \s5 diff --git a/23-ISA/38.usfm b/23-ISA/38.usfm index 0a7dfbff..6d16c1eb 100644 --- a/23-ISA/38.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/38.usfm @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ \q1 \v 11 I said that I will no longer see Yahweh, Yahweh in the land of the living; \q1 I will no longer look on mankind or the inhabitants of the world. +\f + \ft \fqa the inhabitants of the world \fqb : Most modern versions have this meaning. Ancient Hebrew copies have \fqa the inhabitants of the place of non-existence \fqb (that is, brief existence). \f* \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/40.usfm b/23-ISA/40.usfm index ed32fd19..4dbccd4e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/40.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/40.usfm @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ \v 3 A voice cries out, \q1 "In the wilderness prepare the way of Yahweh; \q1 make straight in the Arabah a highway for our God." +\f + \ft Some older modern versions have \fqa A voice cries out in the wilderness.... \fqb \f* \q1 \v 4 Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; \q1 and the rugged land will be made level, and the @@ -37,7 +38,9 @@ flower of the field. \p \q1 \v 9 Go up on a high mountain, Zion, bearer of good news; -\q1 lift up your voice with strength; proclaim good news to Jerusalem. Cry out loudly; do not be afraid. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Go up on a high mountain, Zion, bearer of good news \fqb , some versions have \fqa You who are bearing good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain \fqb . \f* +\q1 lift up your voice with strength. Jerusalem, proclaimer of good news, cry out loudly; do not be afraid. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa Jerusalem, proclaimer of good news \fqb , some versions have \fqa proclaim good news to Jerusalem \fqb . \f* \q1 Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!" \q1 \v 10 Look, the Lord Yahweh comes as a victorious warrior, and his strong arm rules for him. diff --git a/23-ISA/41.usfm b/23-ISA/41.usfm index 65f5f04a..4ad6ce5c 100644 --- a/23-ISA/41.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/41.usfm @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ \v 1 "Listen before me in silence, you coastlands; let the nations renew their strength; \q1 let them come near and speak; let us come near together to argue a dispute. \q1 -\v 2 Who stirred up this one from the east? Who calls him in good order to his service? +\v 2 Who stirred up this one from the east? Who calls him in good order to his foot? \q1 He hands nations over to him and makes him able to subdue kings; -\q1 he makes them as the dust with his sword, as windblown stubble with his bow. +\q1 he makes them like the dust with his sword, like windblown stubble with his bow. \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/44.usfm b/23-ISA/44.usfm index 10b44a3c..0da30173 100644 --- a/23-ISA/44.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/44.usfm @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. \q1 \v 13 The carpenter measures the wood with a line, and marks it with a stylus. \q1 He shapes it with his tools and marks it out with a compass. -\q1 He shapes it after the figure of a man, like an attractive human, so it may stay in a shrine. +\q1 He shapes it after the figure of a man, like an attractive human, so it may stay in a house. \s5 \q1 diff --git a/23-ISA/49.usfm b/23-ISA/49.usfm index 900934f0..2b000d0a 100644 --- a/23-ISA/49.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/49.usfm @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet; \s5 \p \q1 -\v 24 Can the spoils be taken from the warrior, or captives be rescued from a tyrant? +\v 24 Can the spoils be taken from the warrior, or captives be rescued from the fierce? +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa from the fierce \fqb , the Hebrew text has \fqa from the righteous \fqb , but most modern versions correct it to \fqa from the fierce \fqb . \f* \q1 \v 25 But this is what Yahweh says, \q1 "Yes, the captives will be taken away from the warrior, and spoils will be rescued; diff --git a/23-ISA/51.usfm b/23-ISA/51.usfm index 6e909992..16c0411a 100644 --- a/23-ISA/51.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/51.usfm @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies. \s5 \q1 \v 19 These two troubles happened to you—who will grieve with you?— -\q1 desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will console you? +\q1 desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will comfort you? +\f + \ft The Hebrew text and some modern versions have \fqa How will I comfort you? \fqb , most modern versions correct this passage to \fqa Who will comfort you? \fqb \f* \q1 \v 20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; \q1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. diff --git a/23-ISA/52.usfm b/23-ISA/52.usfm index c6644c5b..28488744 100644 --- a/23-ISA/52.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/52.usfm @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ \s5 \q1 -\v 5 Now what do I have here—this is Yahweh's declaration—seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them wail—this is Yahweh's declaration—and my name is slandered continually all day long. +\v 5 Now what do I have here—this is Yahweh's declaration—seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock—this is Yahweh's declaration—and my name is slandered continually all day long. +\f + \ft Instead of \fqa mock \fqb , some versions identify a different Hebrew word meaning \fqa wail \fqb . \f* \q1 \v 6 Therefore my people will know my name; \q1 they will know in that day that I am the one who said this. Yes, it is I!" @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ \s5 \p \q1 -\v 13 Look, my servant will deal wisely and will be successful; +\v 13 Look, my servant will be successful; \q1 he will be high and elevated; he will be very exalted. \q1 \v 14 As many were horrified at you— diff --git a/23-ISA/58.usfm b/23-ISA/58.usfm index 1018897d..9b541d7e 100644 --- a/23-ISA/58.usfm +++ b/23-ISA/58.usfm @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ go before you, and the glory of Yahweh would be your rearguard. \s5 \q1 -\v 14 "Then you will find delight in Yahweh; and I will make you ride on the high places of the earth; +\v 14 "Then you will find delight in Yahweh; and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; \q1 I will feed you from the inheritance of Jacob your father—for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken." diff --git a/24-JER/02.usfm b/24-JER/02.usfm index 4ea9b5d5..6b640763 100644 --- a/24-JER/02.usfm +++ b/24-JER/02.usfm @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ \q I have called to mind on your behalf the covenant faithfulness in your youthfulness, your love at the time when we were engaged, \q when you went after me in the wilderness, the land that was not sown. \q -\v 3 Israel is dedicated to Yahweh, the first fruits of the harvest! -\q All who ate from the first fruits were sinning! Evil will come on them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'" +\v 3 Israel is dedicated to Yahweh, the firstfruits of the harvest! +\q All who ate from the firstfruits were sinning! Evil will come on them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'" \s5 \q diff --git a/24-JER/07.usfm b/24-JER/07.usfm index abfec5c9..dc2f44de 100644 --- a/24-JER/07.usfm +++ b/24-JER/07.usfm @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ \v 30 For the sons of Judah have done evil in my eye—this is Yahweh's declaration—they have set their detestable things in the house where my name is proclaimed, in order to defile it. \s5 -\v 31 Then they built the shrine of Topheth that is in the valley of Ben Hinnom. They did this to burn their sons and daughters in fire—something that I did not command. It never came up in my mind. +\v 31 Then they built the high place of Topheth that is in the valley of Ben Hinnom. They did this to burn their sons and daughters in fire—something that I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. \v 32 So see, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when it will no longer be called Topheth or valley of Ben Hinnom. It will be the valley of Slaughter; they will bury bodies in Topheth until there is no room left. \s5 diff --git a/24-JER/12.usfm b/24-JER/12.usfm index 9797a42a..af9cc029 100644 --- a/24-JER/12.usfm +++ b/24-JER/12.usfm @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ \q1 for Yahweh's sword is devouring from one end of the land to the other. \q2 There is no safety in the land for any living creature. \q1 -\v 13 They have sown wheat but harvest thorn bushes. They are exhausted from work but have gained nothing. +\v 13 They have sown wheat but harvest thornbushes. They are exhausted from work but have gained nothing. \q2 So be ashamed of your gain because of Yahweh's anger." \s5 diff --git a/24-JER/17.usfm b/24-JER/17.usfm index 0626f041..f9f17090 100644 --- a/24-JER/17.usfm +++ b/24-JER/17.usfm @@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ \s5 \q -\v 3 They remember their altars on the mountains in the countryside. I will turn your wealth and all of your treasures into plunder for others. -\q For your sin is everywhere within all of your borders. +\v 3 My mountain in the field and all your wealth along with all of your treasures, +\q I will give as plunder to others. +\q That is the price of your high places +\q and the sin that is throughout all your territories. + \q \v 4 You will lose the inheritance that I gave to you. \q I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, diff --git a/24-JER/19.usfm b/24-JER/19.usfm index f5c8afd5..b1bc7979 100644 --- a/24-JER/19.usfm +++ b/24-JER/19.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \s5 \v 4 I will do this because they have abandoned me and profaned this place. In this place they offer sacrifices to other gods that they did not know. They, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have also filled this place with innocent blood. -\v 5 They built shrines for Baal in order to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to him—something that I did not command. I did not tell them to do this, nor did it even come up in my heart. +\v 5 They built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to him—something that I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. \s5 diff --git a/24-JER/26.usfm b/24-JER/26.usfm index 8c27d010..d5df6d67 100644 --- a/24-JER/26.usfm +++ b/24-JER/26.usfm @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ \s5 \v 18 They said, "Micah the Morashite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He spoke to all the people of Judah and said, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: -Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount will become a hill of thickets.' +Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount will become a hill overgrown with thickets.' \v 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all of Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Yahweh and appease the face of Yahweh so that Yahweh would relent concerning the disaster that he proclaimed to them? So will we do greater evil against our own lives?" \s5 diff --git a/24-JER/32.usfm b/24-JER/32.usfm index 577fe905..67a0e7b4 100644 --- a/24-JER/32.usfm +++ b/24-JER/32.usfm @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ with the practices of their hands—this is Yahweh's declaration— \s5 \v 33 They turned their backs to me instead of their faces, though I had eagerly taught them. I tried to teach them, but not one of them listened in order to receive correction. \v 34 Then they placed their detestable things in the house in order to pollute it, the house where my name was called. -\v 35 Next they built shrines for Baal in the valley of Ben Hinnom in order to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, something that I did not command them to do, something that never even was thought of in my heart—this disgusting thing for them to do in order to make Judah sin.' +\v 35 They built high places for Baal in the valley of Ben Hinnom in order to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I did not command them and it never entered my mind that they should do this detestable thing, and so cause Judah to sin.' \s5 \p diff --git a/24-JER/48.usfm b/24-JER/48.usfm index 829be474..c09da94e 100644 --- a/24-JER/48.usfm +++ b/24-JER/48.usfm @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 34 From the shouts at Heshbon as far as Elealeh, their sound is heard at Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, since even the waters of Nimrim have dried up. -\v 35 For I will put an end to anyone in Moab who makes sacrifices at the shrines and to anyone who burns incense to his gods—this is Yahweh's declaration. +\v 35 For I will put an end to anyone in Moab who makes sacrifices on the high places and burns incense to his gods—this is Yahweh's declaration. \s5 \v 36 So my heart is lamenting for Moab like a flute. My heart is lamenting like flutes for the people of Kir Heres. The riches they gained are gone. \v 37 For every head is bald and every beard shaved. Incisions are on every hand, and sackcloth is around their waists. diff --git a/26-EZK/06.usfm b/26-EZK/06.usfm index a94c2489..180d8ccd 100644 --- a/26-EZK/06.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/06.usfm @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ \v 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars. \s5 -\v 6 Everywhere you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate. Then they will be broken and disappear, your pillars will be cut down and your works will be wiped away. -\v 7 The dead will fall down in your midst, and you will know that I am Yahweh! +\v 6 Everywhere you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate. Then they will be broken and disappear, your pillars will be cut down and your works will be wiped away. +\v 7 The dead will fall down in your midst and you will know that I am Yahweh! \s5 \p diff --git a/26-EZK/16.usfm b/26-EZK/16.usfm index e6b864cb..88ee1600 100644 --- a/26-EZK/16.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/16.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and you acted like a whore because of your fame; you poured out your acts of prostitution on everyone who passed by. You became the property of those men! -\v 16 Then you took your clothes and with them you made for yourself shrines decorated in various colors, and you acted like a prostitute at them. This should not have come about! It should not have been! +\v 16 Then you took your clothes and with them you made high places for yourself decorated in various colors, and there you acted like a prostitutes. This should not have happened! Nor should such things exist! \s5 \v 17 You took the fine jewels of the gold and silver that I gave you, and you made for yourself male figures, and you did with them as a prostitute would do. @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ \s5 \p \v 23 Woe! Woe to you!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—therefore, in addition to all this wickedness, -\v 24 you built yourself a ritual place, and have made a shrine in every public place. +\v 24 you built yourself a ritual place, and have made a vaulted chamber in every public place. \s5 -\v 25 You built shrines at the head of every road and desecrated your beauty, for you opened up your legs to every one who passed by and performed many more acts of prostitution. -\v 26 You have acted like a prostitute with the Egyptians, your neighbor who had great lustful desires, and you committed many more acts of prostitution so as to make me angry. +\v 25 You built your high place at the head of every road and desecrated your beauty, for you offered your body to every one who passed by and you performed many more acts of prostitution. +\v 26 You have acted like a prostitute with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and you committed many more acts of prostitution, provoking me to anger. \s5 \v 27 So look! I will strike you with my hand and cut off your food. I will hand your life over to your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, to bring you shame because of your lustful behavior. @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 30 Why is your heart so weak?—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—that you would do all these things, deeds of a promiscuous and shameless woman? -\v 31 When you built your ritual places at the head of every street and made your shrines in every public place, you were not actually a prostitute, since you refused to take pay for your actions! +\v 31 You have built your high places at the head of every street and made your lofty place in every public square. Yet you were not like a prostitute because you refused to take payment! \s5 \v 32 You adulterous woman, you accept strangers instead of your husband! @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ \s5 \v 38 For I will punish you for adultery and the shedding of blood, and I will bring on you the bloodshed of my anger and passion! -\v 39 I will give you into their hand so they will throw down your ritual places and break down your shrines, and they will strip you of your clothes and take all of your jewelry; they will leave you naked and bare. +\v 39 I will give you into their hand so they will throw down your mound and break down your high places and they will strip you of your clothes and take all of your jewelry. They will leave you naked and bare. \s5 \v 40 Then they will bring up a crowd against you and stone you with stones, and they will cut you apart with their swords. diff --git a/26-EZK/18.usfm b/26-EZK/18.usfm index ebd4f1ef..1a7bc94b 100644 --- a/26-EZK/18.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/18.usfm @@ -13,28 +13,28 @@ \s5 \p \v 5 For a man, if he is righteous and carries out justice and righteousness— -\v 6 if he has not eaten at the mountain shrines, and has not lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel—if he has not defiled his neighbor's wife, nor approached a woman during her monthly period— +\v 6 if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel and if he has not defiled his neighbor's wife, nor approached a woman during her monthly period, \s5 \v 7 if he has not oppressed anyone but instead has returned a pledge to its debtor—if he has not taken what was stolen, but instead gives his food to the hungry and covers the naked with clothes; \s5 -\v 8 if he does not charge any interest for loans, nor take excessive profit—if he carries out justice and establishes faithfulness between people— -\v 9 if he walks in my statutes and keeps my decrees to act faithfully—this man is righteous; he will live!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration. +\v 8 and if he does not charge any interest for loans, nor take excessive profit—if he carries out justice and establishes faithfulness between people, +\v 9 and if he walks in my statutes and keeps my decrees to act faithfully—this man is righteous! He will live!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration. \s5 \p \v 10 But if he has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things— -\v 11 even though his father does not do any of these things—but if his son instead eats at the mountain shrines and defiles his neighbor's wife— +\v 11 (though his father does not do any of these things), but he eats upon the mountains and he defiles his neighbor's wife. \s5 -\v 12 if he oppresses the poor and needy, if he seizes and robs and does not return a pledge, if he lifts up his eyes to the idols or commits disgusting actions; -\v 13 if he lends charging interest or gains unjust profit, should he live? He will not live! He has done all these disgusting actions. He will surely die; his blood is on him. +\v 12 If he oppresses the poor and needy, if he seizes and robs and does not return a pledge, if he lifts up his eyes to the idols or commits disgusting actions; +\v 13 if he lends charging interest or gains unjust profit, should he live? He will not live! He has done all these disgusting actions. He will surely die. His blood is on him. \s5 \p \v 14 But behold! If he bears a son who sees all the sins that his father has committed, and if he himself fears God and does not do such things— -\v 15 if he does not eat at the mountain shrines, nor lifts his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel—if he does not defile his neighbor's wife; +\v 15 if he does not eat at the mountains, nor does he lift his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel—if he does not defile his neighbor's wife; \s5 \v 16 if he does not oppress anyone, seize a pledge, or take stolen things, but instead gives his food to the hungry and covers the naked with clothes— diff --git a/26-EZK/20.usfm b/26-EZK/20.usfm index 6c926f0f..20fb5477 100644 --- a/26-EZK/20.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/20.usfm @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ know that I am Yahweh!' \s5 \p -\v 40 For on my holy mountain, on the mountain peak of Israel—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—all of the house of Israel will worship me there in the land. I will be pleased to require your offerings there, and also the first fruits of your tribute with all your holy things. +\v 40 For on my holy mountain, on the mountain peak of Israel—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—all of the house of Israel will worship me there in the land. I will be pleased to require your offerings there, and also the firstfruits of your tribute with all your holy things. \v 41 I will accept you like fragrant incense when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. I will show myself as holy among you for the nations to see. \s5 diff --git a/26-EZK/43.usfm b/26-EZK/43.usfm index ef1c49dd..8efd488b 100644 --- a/26-EZK/43.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/43.usfm @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ \s5 \p \v 6 The man was standing beside me, and I heard someone else speaking to me from the house. -\v 7 He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live in the midst of the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name—they or their kings—with their faithlessness or with the 'corpses' of their kings at their shrines. -\v 8 They will no longer profane my holy name by putting the thresholds of their shrines next to my own threshold, and their shrines' gateposts next to my own gateposts, with nothing but a wall between me and them. They profaned my holy name with their disgusting actions, so I consumed them with my anger. +\v 7 He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live in the midst of the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name—they or their kings—with their faithlessness or with the 'corpses' of their kings at their high places. +\v 8 They will no longer profane my holy name by putting their threshold next to my threshold, and their gateposts next to my gateposts, with nothing but a wall between me and them. They profaned my holy name with their disgusting actions, so I consumed them with my anger. \s5 \v 9 Now let them remove their faithlessness and the 'corpses' of their kings from before me, and I will live in their midst forever! diff --git a/26-EZK/48.usfm b/26-EZK/48.usfm index 7fe63767..ad579e5b 100644 --- a/26-EZK/48.usfm +++ b/26-EZK/48.usfm @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 13 The Levites' land along the border with the priests' land will be twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. The entire length of the two tracts of land will be twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits wide. -\v 14 They must not sell it or exchange it; none of this first fruits of the land of Israel must ever be separated from these tracts, for it all is holy to Yahweh. +\v 14 They must not sell it or exchange it; none of this firstfruits of the land of Israel must ever be separated from these tracts, for it all is holy to Yahweh. \s5 \p diff --git a/28-HOS/09.usfm b/28-HOS/09.usfm index 08c71da1..98270704 100644 --- a/28-HOS/09.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/09.usfm @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ \p \q \v 10 Yahweh says, "When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. -\q Like the first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. +\q Like the firstfruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. \q But they went to Baal Peor, \q and they gave themselves to that shameful idol. \q They became as detestable as the idol they loved. diff --git a/28-HOS/10.usfm b/28-HOS/10.usfm index d533e234..dde627df 100644 --- a/28-HOS/10.usfm +++ b/28-HOS/10.usfm @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ \q As his fruit increased, \q the more altars he built. \q As his land produced more, -\q he improved his sacred pillars. +\q he improved his pillars. \q \v 2 Their heart is deceitful; \q now they must bear their guilt. \q Yahweh will demolish their altars; -\q he will destroy their sacred pillars. +\q he will destroy their pillars. \s5 \q @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ \q will be destroyed, \q like a chip of wood on the surface of the water. \q -\v 8 The shrines of wickedness—the sin of Israel— -\q will be destroyed. +\v 8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed. +\q This is the sin of Israel! \q Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. \q The people will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" \q and to the hills, "Fall on us!" diff --git a/33-MIC/01.usfm b/33-MIC/01.usfm index 6919df0d..0e10a758 100644 --- a/33-MIC/01.usfm +++ b/33-MIC/01.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ \q \v 3 Look, Yahweh comes out of his place; \q he will come down and tread -\q on the pagan shrines on the earth. +\q on the high places on the earth. \q \v 4 The mountains will melt under him; \q the valleys will break apart @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ \q and because of the sins of the house of Israel. \q What was the reason for Jacob's rebellion? \q Was it not Samaria? -\q What was the reason for Judah's shrines? +\q What was the reason for high places of Judah? \q Was it not Jerusalem? \s5 diff --git a/35-HAB/02.usfm b/35-HAB/02.usfm index f71b545b..d42e63b4 100644 --- a/35-HAB/02.usfm +++ b/35-HAB/02.usfm @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ \s5 \q -\v 4 Look! The one's whose desires are not upright within him, is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith! +\v 4 Look! The one whose desires are not right within him, is puffed up. But the righteous will live by his faith. \p \q \v 5 For wine is a betrayer of the arrogant young man so that he will not abide, @@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ \s5 \q -\v 6 Will not all these people take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb regarding him, and say, +\v 6 Will not all these peoples create a saying to ridicule him and a taunting song about him, saying, \q 'Woe to the one increasing what is not his! For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?' \q2 \v 7 Will the ones gnashing at you not rise up suddenly, and the ones terrifying you awaken? \q2 You will become a victim for them! \q2 -\v 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, -\q2 on account of the blood of man and the violence done to the land, the village, and its inhabitants. +\v 8 Because you have plundered many peoples, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you. +\q2 For you have shed human blood and acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them. \s5 \p @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ \v 12 'Woe to the one who builds a city with blood, and who establishes a town in iniquity!' \q2 \v 13 Is it not from Yahweh of hosts -\q2 that peoples labor for fire and that the nations weary themselves for nothing? +\q2 that peoples labor for fire and all the other nations weary themselves for nothing? \q2 \v 14 Yet the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh like the waters cover the sea. @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ \s5 \q2 -\v 17 The violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the destruction of beasts will terrify you -\q2 because of the blood of men and because of the violence done to the land, to the cities, and to all their inhabitants. +\v 17 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and the destruction of animals will terrify you. +\q2 For you have shed human blood and you have acted with violence against the land, the cities, and all who live in them. \s5 \p diff --git a/41-MAT/09.usfm b/41-MAT/09.usfm index b194af6a..39584e93 100644 --- a/41-MAT/09.usfm +++ b/41-MAT/09.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \v 3 Behold, some of the scribes said among themselves, "This man is blaspheming." \v 4 Jesus knew their thoughts and said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? \v 5 For which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? -\v 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,..." he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your mat, and go to your house." +\v 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins, ... " he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your mat, and go to your house." \s5 \v 7 Then the man got up and went away to his house. diff --git a/42-MRK/11.usfm b/42-MRK/11.usfm index 1284b203..1b4ed79d 100644 --- a/42-MRK/11.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/11.usfm @@ -68,5 +68,5 @@ \s5 \v 31 They discussed between themselves and argued and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' -\v 32 But if we say, 'From men,' ..." They feared the people, for they all held that John was a prophet. +\v 32 But if we say, 'From men,' ... " They feared the people, for they all held that John was a prophet. \v 33 Then they answered Jesus and said, "We do not know." Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." diff --git a/42-MRK/13.usfm b/42-MRK/13.usfm index 2b377738..150c1315 100644 --- a/42-MRK/13.usfm +++ b/42-MRK/13.usfm @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ \p \v 33 Be alert! Watch, because you do not know what time it is. \f + \ft Some ancient authorities read: -\fqa Be alert! Watch and pray, because...\f* +\fqa Be alert! Watch and pray, because ... \f* \v 34 It is like a man who goes on a journey: he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge of the house, each one with his work. And he commands the watchman to stay awake. \s5 diff --git a/46-ROM/08.usfm b/46-ROM/08.usfm index 01a806a1..3efc322a 100644 --- a/46-ROM/08.usfm +++ b/46-ROM/08.usfm @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ \v 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain together even now. \s5 -\v 23 Not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit—even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the redemption of our body. +\v 23 Not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit—even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the redemption of our body. \v 24 For by this confidence we were saved. But what we are confident will happen has not yet been seen, for who confidently waits for what he already sees? \v 25 But if we are confident about what we do not yet see, then we wait with patience for it. diff --git a/46-ROM/11.usfm b/46-ROM/11.usfm index 95cb2183..06c3f444 100644 --- a/46-ROM/11.usfm +++ b/46-ROM/11.usfm @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ \s5 \v 15 For if the rejection of those is the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception be but life from the dead ones? -\v 16 If the first fruits are reserved, so is the lump of dough. If the root is reserved, so are the branches. +\v 16 If the firstfruits are reserved, so is the lump of dough. If the root is reserved, so are the branches. \s5 \v 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, if you, a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and if you shared with them in the rich root of the olive tree, diff --git a/46-ROM/16.usfm b/46-ROM/16.usfm index 790e786b..586d22bd 100644 --- a/46-ROM/16.usfm +++ b/46-ROM/16.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \p \v 3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, \v 4 who for my life risked their own lives. I give thanks to them, and not only I, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. -\v 5 Greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ. +\v 5 Greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus my beloved, who is the firstfruit of Asia to Christ. \s5 \v 6 Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you. diff --git a/47-1CO/15.usfm b/47-1CO/15.usfm index 2e875fa3..6edfdaad 100644 --- a/47-1CO/15.usfm +++ b/47-1CO/15.usfm @@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ \s5 \p -\v 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead ones, the first fruits of those who died. +\v 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead ones, the firstfruits of those who died. \v 21 For since death came by a man, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. \s5 \v 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive. -\v 23 But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruits, and then those who belong to Christ will be made alive at his coming. +\v 23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits, and then those who belong to Christ will be made alive at his coming. \s5 \v 24 Then will be the end, when Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father. This is when he will abolish all rule and all authority and power. diff --git a/49-GAL/01.usfm b/49-GAL/01.usfm index 8a6fcd90..fe913614 100644 --- a/49-GAL/01.usfm +++ b/49-GAL/01.usfm @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ \s5 \v 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, \v 4 who gave himself for our sins so that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. -\v 5 To him be the glory for ever and ever. +\v 5 To him be the glory forever and ever. \b \s5 diff --git a/51-PHP/04.usfm b/51-PHP/04.usfm index 6051953a..478c6410 100644 --- a/51-PHP/04.usfm +++ b/51-PHP/04.usfm @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ \s5 \v 18 I have received all the things, and I have plenty. I have been filled. I have received from Epaphroditus the things from you. They are a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice pleasing to God. \v 19 And my God will fill every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. -\v 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. +\v 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. \b \s5 diff --git a/54-2TH/02.usfm b/54-2TH/02.usfm index a78b2c74..daa41623 100644 --- a/54-2TH/02.usfm +++ b/54-2TH/02.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord. For God chose you as the first fruits for salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth. +\v 13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord. For God chose you as the firstfruits for salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth. \f + \ft Some other versions read, \fqa For God chose you from the first for salvation. \fqb \f* \v 14 This is what he called you to through our gospel to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. \v 15 So then, brothers, stand firm. Grasp the traditions that you were taught, whether by word or by our letter. diff --git a/59-HEB/01.usfm b/59-HEB/01.usfm index 22ece91e..bfa307c5 100644 --- a/59-HEB/01.usfm +++ b/59-HEB/01.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 8 But about the Son he says, -\q "Your throne, God, is for ever and ever. +\q "Your throne, God, is forever and ever. \q The scepter of your kingdom is the scepter of justice. \q \v 9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. diff --git a/60-JAS/01.usfm b/60-JAS/01.usfm index c5ee333a..24831992 100644 --- a/60-JAS/01.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/01.usfm @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ \s5 \v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights. With him there is no changing or shadow because of turning. -\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of all the things that he created. +\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all the things that he created. \s5 \v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. diff --git a/61-1PE/01.usfm b/61-1PE/01.usfm index 091e4c5c..eb2c23d7 100644 --- a/61-1PE/01.usfm +++ b/61-1PE/01.usfm @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ \s5 \v 22 You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth. This was for the purpose of sincere brotherly love, so love one another earnestly from the heart. -\f + \ft Some older versions read, \fqa You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit... \fqb \f* +\f + \ft Some older versions read, \fqa You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit ... \fqb \f* \v 23 You have been born again, not from perishable seed, but from imperishable seed, through the living and remaining word of God. \s5 diff --git a/61-1PE/05.usfm b/61-1PE/05.usfm index 6d3ca26c..9d199811 100644 --- a/61-1PE/05.usfm +++ b/61-1PE/05.usfm @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ \s5 \v 10 After you suffer for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect you, establish you, and strengthen you. -\v 11 To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. +\v 11 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen. \b \s5