“Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”
The wrath of God kindled against His people, with mountains trembling and corpses becoming like refuse in the streets, presents the judgment as an expression of divine anger that will manifest as catastrophic physical and social devastation. This verse invokes imagery of cosmic upheaval and complete social collapse, suggesting that the judgment will extend beyond human warfare to include the destabilization of the natural order itself. The reference to corpses indicates that the judgment will involve mass death, either from warfare or disease, transforming the city into a charnel house. Yet the statement that
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