until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day — Israel's exile is attributed to the LORD's action (הִשְׁלִיךְ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל, *hishshlich et-Yisrael*), executed "as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets." The prophetic warnings, catalogued in verses 13-14, are now fulfilled: exile is the consequence of rejecting the prophetic summons to repentance. The phrase "until this day" (עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה, *ad ha-yom ha-zeh*) indicates the narrator's perspective from a later period, witnessing Israel's continued exile. The deportation (גָּלוּ, *galu*) is complete and apparently permanent.

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