“Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.”
Then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. The final sevenfold escalation in my anger: the most severe curses arise from the most intense divine response. The anger of God — not capricious but the response to continued, escalating covenant rejection — produces the most severe covenantal consequences. The seven-times-over that has punctuated the chapter's escalating structure reaches its final application.
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