For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His deed—strange is His deed, and to perform His work—alien is His work, establishing that God will act in judgment against Judah as God acted against Judah's enemies, suggesting that Judah has become God's opponent requiring the same divine opposition that once protected it. Mount Perazim and the Valley of Gibeon are sites of divine victories against enemies, yet now God will use these same forms of action against Judah itself. The strangeness and alienness of God's deed and work suggest that it runs counter to what the people had expected: the God who had been their defender becomes their judge. The oracle suggests that apostasy transforms the nation's status from beneficiary of God's protection to object of God's judgment.

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