“Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.”
The affirmation that God will make them as a fiery oven when the king confronts them and God will swallow them in wrath and fire devour them establishes cataclysmic enemy destruction. The fiery oven imagery suggests overwhelming destructive force. The swallowing suggests complete obliteration. The fire imagery emphasizes divine judgment. This verse depicts God's violent judgment of the king's enemies.
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