“And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.”
The final image of the slain of the LORD stretching from one end of the earth to the other, with none to lament or gather them, represents the magnitude and finality of judgment. The unlamented dead emphasize complete defeat and the absence of anyone to honor the fallen. The stretching from one end of the earth to the other shows the global scope of destruction. The verse presents a horrifying image of universal judgment and its consequences.
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