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The earth becomes dry and all the plants die. The whole world becomes weak and helpless. Its important people also become weak.

The people who live on the earth have caused it to become unclean.

They have not obeyed God's laws.
They have turned against his teaching.
They have not obeyed the covenant that God made with them for ever.

That is why a curse is destroying the land. The people who live on it are guilty and God is punishing them. They become fewer and fewer. Only a very few of them remain.

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