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 \v 4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the former desolations.
 \q1 They will restore the ruined cities, the desolations from many former generations.
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-\v 5 Foreigners will stand and feed your flocks, and sons of foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
+\v 5 Foreigners will stand and feed your flocks, and sons of foreigners will be your farmers and vineyard workers.
 
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 \q1 Foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have worked.
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 \v 9 For those who harvest the grain will eat it and praise Yahweh,
-\q1 and those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary."
+\q1 and those who gather the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary."
 
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 \v 11 Look, Yahweh announces to the ends of the earth,
-\q1 "Say to the daughter of Zion: Look, your Savior is coming!
+\q1 "Say to the daughter of Zion: Look, your salvation is coming!
 \q1 See, his reward is with him, and his recompense is going before him."
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 \v 12 They will call you, "The holy people; the redeemed of Yahweh," and you will be called "Sought after; a city not abandoned."
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 \q1 "It is I, speaking in righteousness, and mighty to save."
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-\v 2 Why are your clothes red, and why do they look like you have been treading grapes in a winepress?
+\v 2 Why are your clothes red, and why do your garments look like you have been treading grapes in a winepress?
 
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-\v 5 I looked, and there was no one to help. I wondered that there was none to help,
+\v 5 I looked, and there was no one to help. I was appalled that there was none to help,
 \q1 but my own arm brought victory for me, and my strong anger drove me on.
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 \v 6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath,
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-\v 7 I will tell of the acts of Yahweh's covenant faithfulness, the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh.
+\v 7 I will tell of the acts of Yahweh's covenant faithfulness, the praises of Yahweh.
 \q1 I will tell of all that Yahweh has done for us, and of his great goodness to the house of Israel.
 \q1 This compassion he has shown us because of his mercy, and with many deeds of covenant faithfulness.
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 \v 12 Where is God, who made his glorious power go with the right hand of Moses,
 \q1 and divided the water before them, to make an everlasting name for himself?
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-\v 13 Where is God, who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land, they did not stumble.
+\v 13 Where is God, who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running in the wilderness, they did not stumble.
 
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 \v 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh gave them rest.
-\q1 So you led your people, to make yourself a name of praise.
+\q1 So you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
 
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-\v 17 Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts, so we do not obey you?
+\v 17 Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not fear you?
 \q1 Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
 
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-\v 18 Your people possessed your holy place for a short time, but then our enemies trampled it.
+\v 18 Your holy people possessed your sanctuary for a short time, but then our enemies trampled it.
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 \v 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were never called by your name."
 
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-\v 3 Previously, when you did marvelous things that we had not expected, you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence.
+\v 3 Previously, when you did awesome things that we had not expected, you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence.
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 \v 4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived,
 \q1 nor eye seen any God besides you, who does things for him who waits for him.
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 \v 8 Yet, Yahweh, you are our Father;
 \q1 we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
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-\v 9 Be not too angry, Yahweh, nor always call to mind against us our sins.
+\v 9 Be not too angry, Yahweh, nor remember our iniquity against us forever.
 \q1 Please look at us all, your people.
 
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-\v 3 They are a people who continually offend me,
+\v 3 They are a people who continually provoke me,
 \q1 offering sacrifices in gardens, and burning incense on brick tiles.
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 \v 4 They sit among the graves and keep watch all night,
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 \v 6 Look, it is written before me:
 \q1 I will not keep quiet, for I will pay them back; I will repay them into their laps,
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-\v 7 for their sins and the sins of their fathers together," says Yahweh.
+\v 7 for their iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together," says Yahweh.
 \q1 "I will repay them for burning incense on the mountains and for mocking me on the hills.
 \q1 I will therefore measure out their past deeds into their laps."
 
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-\v 8 This is what Yahweh says, "As when juice is found in a cluster of grapes,
+\v 8 This is what Yahweh says, "As when new wine is found in a cluster of grapes,
 \q1 when one says, 'Do not ruin it, for there is good in it,'
 \q1 this is what I will do for my servants' sake: I will not ruin them all.
 
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 \v 18 But you will be glad and rejoice forever in what I am about to create. See, I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and her people as a delight.
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 \v 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and be glad over my people;
-\q1 weeping and cries of distress will no longer be heard in her.
+\q1 the sounds of weeping and cries of distress will no longer be heard in her.
 
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 \v 25 The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox;
 \q1 but dust will be the serpent's food.
-\q1 They will no longer hurt nor destroy on all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
+\q1 They will no longer do evil or harm on all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
 
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 \v 6 A sound of battle tumult comes from the city, a sound from the temple,
-\q1 the sound of Yahweh paying back his enemies.
+\q1 the sound of Yahweh giving recompense to his enemies.
 
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 \v 18 For I know their deeds and their thoughts. The time is coming when I will gather all nations and languages. They will come and will see my glory. \f + \ft Modern translations provide various interpretations for this difficult verse. \f*
-\v 19 I will set a sign among them. Then I will send survivors from them to the nations: To Tarshish, the Libyans and Lydians, \f + \ft Some modern English translations read, \fqa Tarshish, Put, and Lud \fqa* . \f* who draw the bow, to Tubal, Greece, \f + \ft Some modern English translations read, \fqa Javan \fqa* . \f* and to the distant coastlands where they have not heard about me nor seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.
+\v 19 I will set a sign among them. Then I will send survivors from them to the nations: To Tarshish, the Libyans and Lydians, \f + \ft Some modern English translations read, \fqa Tarshish, Put, and Lud \fqa* . \f* who draw the bow, to Tubal, Greece, \f + \ft Some modern English translations read, \fqa Javan \fqa* . \f* and to the distant coastlands that have not heard reports about me nor seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.
 
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 \v 20 They will bring back all your brothers out of all the nations, as an offering to Yahweh. They will come on horses, and in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem—says Yahweh. For the people of Israel will bring a grain offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.