The Lord will have sent people far away, and the land is wholly abandoned." The continued description of desolation suggests depopulation through exile; people are removed from the land God gave them. The imagery of a land abandoned by its inhabitants reverses the blessing of the land promise; covenant violation results in loss of the very territory that constituted core covenant blessing. This verse emphasizes that the desolation is not natural disaster but the result of human covenant violation and divine judgment. The passive voice (people will be sent) suggests that deportation is the instrument through which desolation comes; military conquest and exile empty the land.

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