diff --git a/24-JER/20.usfm b/24-JER/20.usfm
index d0e69c4e..3966c88e 100644
--- a/24-JER/20.usfm
+++ b/24-JER/20.usfm
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ deceitful things will be buried there.'"
 \v 8 For whenever I have spoken, I have called out and proclaimed, 'Violence and destruction.'
 \q Then Yahweh's word has become for me reproach and mocking every day.
 \q
-\v 9 If I say, 'I will not think about Yahweh anymore. I will no longer proclaim his name.'
+\v 9 If I say, 'I will not think about Yahweh anymore. I will not speak any longer in his name.'
 \q Then it is like a fire in my heart, held within my bones. So I struggle to contain it but I cannot.
 
 \s5
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ deceitful things will be buried there.'"
 
 \s5
 \q
-\v 16 Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew when he would not have mercy.
-\q May he hear a call for help in the dawn and the shout of battle at noontime.
+\v 16 Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew and he did not have compassion on them.
+\q Let him hear a cry for help in the dawn, a battle cry at noontime,
 \q
-\v 17 May this happen, since Yahweh did not kill me in the womb or make my mother my tomb,
-\q a pregnant womb forever.
+\v 17 because he did not kill me in the womb, making my mother to be my tomb,
+\q a womb that was pregnant forever.
 \q
 \v 18 Why is it that I came out from the womb to see troubles and agony,
 \q so that my days are filled with shame?"
diff --git a/24-JER/29.usfm b/24-JER/29.usfm
index 3f267401..73bf2c17 100644
--- a/24-JER/29.usfm
+++ b/24-JER/29.usfm
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ so you do not become too few.
 
 \s5
 \v 8 For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that you yourselves are having.
-\v 9 For they are prophesying deceitfully to you in my name. I did not send them out—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
+\v 9 For they are prophesying deceitfully to you in my name. I did not send them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
 
 \s5
 \p