“For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.”
The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein—the accumulation of ecological and human violence ('blood of man and violence to the earth') finds its resolution in Babylon's overwhelming. The reference to Lebanon's violence invokes specific historical atrocities; each crime catalogued comes due. Creation's violation, not merely humanity's suffering, demands recompense.
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