“It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.”
The promise that the LORD will come against Israel when he pleases and the people shall be gathered against them for their double iniquity suggests that judgment will be executed at God's appointed time and that Israel's twin sins (idolatry and injustice, or violation of both tables of the law) will be the basis of judgment. The gathering of peoples against Israel may refer to military coalition or simply to the inexorability of divine judgment. This verse indicates that divine judgment is both certain and temporally determined.
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