“Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.”
Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein—the second woe establishes retributive justice: the plunderer who shed blood now faces the same violence. The cosmic dimension ('violence to the earth') suggests that bloodshed corrupts creation itself and cries out for recompense. This verse illustrates the principle of just retaliation: those who live by conquest die by conquest.
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