The reference to emissaries crying out in the streets while men of peace weep indicates that those who attempted diplomatic solutions and peaceful resolution weep at the failure of those efforts and the outbreak of total conflict. This verse establishes that the judgment includes the failure of human efforts at negotiation and the triumph of those committed to conflict. The weeping of those devoted to peace suggests the pathos of those who recognize the inevitability of judgment and the futility of human attempts to prevent it. The verse provides context for understanding that the judgment is not merely military defeat but the complete failure of all strategies intended to avoid it.

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