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Wide parched field beside dwindling stream with weak standing cattle, sparse birds and a few stranded fish at water margin; anonymous distant people weary but dignified. Ecological consequence, no spectacle.
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Hosea 4:3

The Land Mourns

A Charge Against the Land · Hosea 4

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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3Therefore the land mourns, and everyone who dwells in it languishes, along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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