KJV ORIGINAL
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
The nations around them will finally understand why Israel ended up in exile — it wasn't because God was weak or absent. Israel broke their covenant with me, so I turned away and let their enemies defeat them. Every single one of them fell because of it.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Sometimes the world gets to see exactly what happens when God's people choose to walk away from him.
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