“Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.”
The address 'Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God' depicts the literal catastrophe of siege and starvation, with the dead lying in streets unable to flee. The image of antelope in nets suggests entrapment and helplessness. The attribution of wrath and rebuke to God maintains theological honesty about divine judgment as source of disaster. Yet identification of divine judgment opens possibility of divine reversal.
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