“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”
Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink; you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze on their nakedness!—the fifth woe invokes wine imagery (connecting to verse 5) and describes predatory exploitation using intoxication. The sexual violation implicit in gazing on nakedness emphasizes the total dehumanization of conquered peoples. This verse addresses not merely military conquest but the psychological and spiritual violation attendant upon imperial domination.
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