“And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:”
The promise that God will pursue those remaining in Jerusalem with sword, famine, and plague establishes that judgment will extend beyond the initial exile to encompass all those who reject God's word through Jeremiah. The threat to make them an object of horror and curse to all nations transforms Jerusalem's survivors into negative example and warning to other peoples, extending the shame beyond internal humiliation to international disgrace. This verse completes the judgment cycle that characterizes those who remain in Jerusalem.
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