“He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.”
The description of the devastation—the vine laid waste and the fig tree split—indicates the destruction of the plants most essential to Israelite agriculture and survival. The stripping of bark down to exposing the wood indicates complete destruction, that the trees themselves are denuded of bark and rendered incapable of recovery. This verse emphasizes the thoroughness of destruction, suggesting that nothing of agricultural value will survive.
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