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10 He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

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13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew in midheaven, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”(A)

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11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
    for what their hands have done shall be done to them.(A)

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14 The second woe has passed. The third woe is coming very soon.(A)

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12 The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.(A)

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Then the Lord answered me and said:
Write the vision;
    make it plain on tablets,
    so that a runner may read it.(A)

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29 And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cut off from it human beings and animals?”(A) 30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.(B) 31 And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring on them and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the people of Judah all the disasters with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen.(C)

32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire, and many similar words were added to them.

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A Rebellious People

Go now, write it before them on a tablet,
    and inscribe it on a scroll,
so that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness forever.(A)
For they are a rebellious people,
    faithless children,
children who will not hear
    the instruction of the Lord;(B)
10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
    prophesy illusions;(C)
11 leave the way; turn aside from the path;
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”(D)

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