“Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.”
The promise that those who are at ease shall go into exile at the head of the exiles indicates that the comfortable elite will lead the procession into captivity. The ironic reversal emphasizes their fate.
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