“Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.”
The declaration 'They will be like stubble; the fire will burn them' dismisses all Babylon's resources—magical and military—as easily combustible and insubstantial. The image of fire consuming straw captures the speed and totality of disaster, leaving nothing behind. The phrase 'no coal to warm themselves' inverts the image: even the ruins of Babylon's power will not provide warmth or comfort. This verse uses fire imagery to suggest both purification (evil destroyed) and punishment (Babylon burned).
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