The reference to Israel's leaders having profaned God's sanctuary and delivered Jacob to utter destruction, Israel to reviling, indicates that the covenant violation of the leadership has resulted in the exile and humiliation of the entire nation. This verse grounds the exile in the specific sin of the leaders who failed in their responsibility to maintain the covenant and to lead the people in righteousness. The pollution of the sanctuary—a reference to religious violation—indicates that the violations involved not merely social injustice but religious unfaithfulness. The verse explains the exile as the inevitable consequence of leadership failure and covenant violation.

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