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13 Then I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead cry out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe[a] to the inhabitants of the earth from the rest of the trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to blow!”

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  1. 8:13 Woe! Woe! Woe: each of the three woes pronounced by the angel represents a separate disaster; cf. Rev 9:12; 11:14. The final woe, released by the seventh trumpet blast, includes the plagues of Rev 16.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

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20 The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands,[a] to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.(A)

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  1. 9:20 The works of their hands: i.e., the gods their hands had made.

21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic potions, their unchastity, or their robberies.

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