And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up; they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land—the flight of survivors in the direction of their homelands, suggesting the dissolution of imperial unity and the return of subject peoples to their territories. The simile of the hunted deer suggests panic and helplessness, emphasizing the terror of the judgment. This verse depicts the scattering that follows the fall of empire.

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