“For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.”
The promise that Judah and other nations will be enslaved by Babylon and afterward many nations and great kings will serve themselves of them represents a hierarchy of judgment. Just as Judah will suffer, so foreign nations that oppose God will suffer. The reversals in power and subjection show that God controls the course of history. The eventual judgment on Babylon and recovery of enslaved peoples shows that no oppression lasts forever.
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