The birthright is universalized: "Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; Philistia too, and Tyre, with Ethiopia—'This one was born there.'" The enumeration of Israel's historical enemies as well as distant peoples, all claimed as natives of Zion, represents a radical universalization: all peoples, regardless of origin or traditional enmity, can claim citizenship in God's city.

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