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22 Now stop your scornful attitude, or your chains
        will be made stronger,
because I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord,
        the Lord of Armies,
    against the whole earth.

A Parable

23 Listen! Hear my voice.
Pay attention to what I say.
24 Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to plant?
Does he keep tilling the soil and turning over the dirt?

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22 Now stop your mocking,(A)
    or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me
    of the destruction decreed(B) against the whole land.(C)

23 Listen(D) and hear my voice;
    pay attention and hear what I say.
24 When a farmer plows for planting,(E) does he plow continually?
    Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

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