Therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse; whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant, establishing that the consequence of the people's rejection will be sudden and catastrophic, like a wall bulging with internal pressure and suddenly collapsing. The breach imagery suggests a structural failure, a weakness that grows from within until it becomes impossible to contain. The bulging wall suggests mounting pressure and the increasing inevitability of collapse. The suddenness of the collapse suggests that catastrophe will strike without warning, perhaps after a period of apparent stability. The oracle emphasizes the instability of the false security that the people have constructed and the ultimate inevitability of its collapse.

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