“They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.”
They all come for violence, all their faces forward; they gather captives like sand—the unified and singular purpose of the Chaldean military machine targets violence and plunder; captive-taking becomes routine, accumulating like sand. The 'faces forward' suggests relentless, undivided focus on conquest. The comparison of captives to sand emphasizes both the vast scale of displacement and the seeming insignificance of individual lives in the machinery of war. The verse underscores the devastating scope of Babylonian conquest.
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