“Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.”
Therefore thus says the LORD God: An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered. The verdict follows the indictment: the very strongholds filled with stolen wealth will be stripped by an unnamed adversary — historically Assyria, which destroyed Samaria in 722 BC. The wordplay is devastating: what was stored in the strongholds (violence and robbery) will be taken from the strongholds by violence and force. The adversary is unspecified, underscoring that the LORD can use any nation as his instrument of judgment.
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