And you, O seacoast, shall become pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks—the reversal of the devastated coastland into pastoral simplicity suggests that judgment transforms the complex human civilization into empty landscape. Nature reclaims the space formerly occupied by human culture; the Philistine realm becomes merely grazing-land. This transformation suggests the evanescence of human achievement outside covenant relationship.

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