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said to me, "Write down in a book everything that I have told you,
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because the time is coming when I will restore my people, Israel and Judah. I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it again. I, the Lord, have spoken."
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The Lord says to the people of Israel and Judah,
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"I heard a cry of terror, a cry of fear and not of peace.
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Now stop and think! Can a man give birth to a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why is everyone so pale?