“Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.”
Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders with silver are cut off; all who weigh out silver are cut off—the address to the Mortar (a merchants' quarter) targets the commercial class and their wealth-centered values. The repeated 'cut off' emphasizes the destruction of the economic apparatus that had become an idol substitute for covenant loyalty. Judgment strikes at the material security upon which false confidence rested.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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