Verse 16
Yet this sledge would do more. It would winnow the nations as well as threshing them. The strong wind that God would provide would drive Israel’s enemies away, as the wind separated the wheat from the chaff and blew the chaff away.
". . . every hindrance to God’s ultimate purposes in the international scene is overcome through a judgment executed through Israel [cf. Micah 4:10-13]." [Note: Grogan, p. 251.]
Israel would then rejoice and make her boast in her great God, who had both empowered her and removed her enemies.
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