You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life—the consequences of empire-building through violence are internal shame and spiritual death. The cutting-off of peoples rebounds upon the perpetrator, creating a house built on wickedness that inevitably collapses. The verse suggests that moral corruption is self-undermining; evil contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

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