You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. The mortality of the exile: perishing among the nations. The land of the enemies that devours the exiled community is the reverse of the promised land that sustained them: the covenant's promise of life in the covenant land is replaced by the covenant's curse of death in the exile's land. The land-devour imagery mirrors the promised land's vomiting: the covenant land rejects them; the exile's land devours them.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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