Verse 6
The Lord’s displeasure was the real reason for the Israelites’ misery. He would no longer take pity on them. He would cause the men of Israel to become dependent on one another and on a human king, evidently a foreign despot. This king and his followers would strike the land, but Yahweh would not deliver His people from them.
"History demonstrates that these conditions did take place after Israel’s rejection of their Messiah." [Note: Ibid., p. 204.]
The ruler in view was Caesar, and the striking took place in A.D. 70.
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