“Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.”
Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They shall build houses but not inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards but not drink wine—the judgment inverts the blessings of covenant: houses become desolate, agricultural labor becomes fruitless. The pattern recalls Deuteronomy's covenant curses; those who break covenant face the reversal of blessing into curse. The specific enumeration of losses (houses, vineyards) hits the materially comfortable hardest.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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