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    "figure_name": "Heaven-and-Earth Witness and Covenant-Lawsuit Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Heaven, earth, mountains, foundations, cosmic witnesses, covenant lawsuit, testimony, and enduring-word imagery",
    "alternate_names": "heaven-and-earth witness imagery; covenant-lawsuit imagery; cosmic testimony imagery; creation witness imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Cosmic witness, covenant lawsuit, creation testimony, judgment summons, and enduring divine word / Heaven-earth witness imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Heaven-and-earth witness imagery calls creation, mountains, or cosmic order to testify to God’s covenant dealings, judgment, faithfulness, or enduring word.",
    "technical_definition": "A covenant-testimony motif in which heaven, earth, mountains, foundations, or cosmic order are summoned as witnesses, hearers, or measuring witnesses in covenant lawsuit, prophetic indictment, moral accountability, or the permanence of God’s speech.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 43 draft-normalized heaven-earth witness imagery review; distinguish covenant lawsuit, poetic summons, creation testimony, and eschatological passing-away language.",
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      "reference": "Deut. 4:26",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I call heaven and earth to witness",
      "explanation": "Heaven and earth are summoned as covenant witnesses against Israel’s apostasy.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Deut. 30:19",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "heaven and earth to record this day",
      "explanation": "Creation witness language underlines the seriousness of covenant choice.",
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      "figure_name": "Heaven-and-Earth Witness and Covenant-Lawsuit Imagery",
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      "reference": "Deut. 32:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Give ear, O ye heavens",
      "explanation": "The song opens with cosmic witnesses hearing the LORD’s covenant indictment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ps. 50:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "He shall call to the heavens... and to the earth",
      "explanation": "Heaven and earth are called into a judgment scene involving God’s people.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0494",
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      "reference": "Isa. 1:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth",
      "explanation": "The prophet frames Judah’s rebellion as a covenant case heard by creation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_name": "Heaven-and-Earth Witness and Covenant-Lawsuit Imagery",
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      "reference": "Jer. 2:12",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Be astonished, O ye heavens",
      "explanation": "The heavens are called to recoil at Israel’s exchange of the living God for idols.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Mic. 6:1-2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "let the hills hear thy voice",
      "explanation": "Mountains and foundations of the earth hear the LORD’s controversy with His people.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Matt. 5:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "till heaven and earth pass",
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      "reference": "Luke 21:33",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "heaven and earth shall pass away",
      "explanation": "The cosmic order is less enduring than the words of Christ.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Rev. 20:11",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "earth and heaven fled away",
      "explanation": "The flight of heaven and earth pictures absolute exposure before final judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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