“And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.”
As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. The psychological dimension of the exile curse: the scattered community lives in perpetual fear, fleeing from the sound of a windblown leaf. The reversal of the covenant blessing's security (lying down without fear, verse 6) is complete in the exile's psychological terror. The community that once pursued its enemies (verse 7) now flees from leaves.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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