“And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.”
The detailed description of coming judgment—emptying Israel of substance and pouring them out like water—emphasizes thoroughness and irreversibility. The image of pouring water suggests fluidity and helplessness; the people will be scattered and destroyed with no power to resist. The falling before their enemies implies military defeat as the instrument of God's judgment. This verse gives concrete, visualizable form to the abstract judgment announced earlier.
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