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Markdown
19 lines
613 B
Markdown
# So look!
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"Listen!" or "Pay attention to the important thing I am going to tell you!"
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# I am about to proclaim freedom to you ... freedom for the sword, the plague, and famine
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"I will proclaim misery to you ... misery from the sword, the plague, and famine". Jeremiah uses irony to say the "freedom" the people will enjoy will actually be suffering.
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# proclaim freedom to you
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"proclaim that you are free"
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# sword
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"enemy soldiers to kill you"
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# am going to make you a terrifying thing in the sight of every kingdom on earth
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"I am going to terrify the people in every kingdom on earth by what I do to you" |