“And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.”
The promise to bring destroyers against the palace, who will cut down the king's cedars, shows that the very materials and structures of power will be destroyed. The image of cutting down cedars invokes the grandeur of the palace (built with expensive materials) and threatens their destruction. The inevitability of the destruction—the destroyers will come and use the king's own materials—suggests that resistance is futile.
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