These examples show how Woe Oracle functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
Woe to those who join house to house
The woe announces judgment against greedy land accumulation.
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Woe to those who rise early... strong drink
The woe indicts pleasure-seeking drunkenness and moral dullness.
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Woe to those who draw iniquity
The woe exposes deliberate attachment to sin.
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Woe to those who call evil good
The woe condemns moral inversion.
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
The woe rebukes proud self-sufficiency.
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Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own
The woe begins judgment against plunder and unjust gain.
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Woe to him who builds a town with blood
The woe condemns violent empire-building.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees
Jesus’ woe functions as covenantal indictment against hypocritical leadership.
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Woe to you who are rich
The woe contrasts present comfort with coming accountability.
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Woe to them
The woe condemns apostasy through the examples of Cain, Balaam, and Korah.
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