“And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.”
I will turn your cities into rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. The exile's devastation: cities destroyed, sanctuaries laid waste, offerings rejected. The pleasing aroma formula that has appeared throughout Leviticus as the confirmation of accepted worship is reversed: God takes no delight in the pleasing aroma of the exiled community's offerings. The worship that was the covenant's most intimate expression becomes unacceptable when the covenant has been comprehensively violated.
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