“Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?”
Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them—the debtors and oppressed will reverse roles; the plunderer becomes the plundered. The sudden uprising emphasizes that Babylon's fall arrives unexpectedly, as the reversal of fortune often does. The transformation of Babylon from collector of spoils to spoils itself represents divine justice through inversion.
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