“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.”
Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors' sins they will waste away. The exile's ongoing deterioration: wasting away in the land of enemies because of their own sins and their ancestors' sins. The generational sin accumulation communicates the cumulative character of covenant rejection: the exile is not only the consequence of the present generation's sin but the accumulated consequence of the generations of covenant rejection that preceded. Ezekiel 18 will address the relationship between the generations' sins and the individual's accountability.
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