
This chapter, and the previous, at an applicational level deals with the terrible devastation that pride and arrogance brings though with contrastive outcomes. Chapter 4 tells us that a repentant heart brings with it restoration while in this chapter an unrepentant heart brings death and destruction. From the perspective of suffering exiles, the chapters comfort them with the knowledge that the fortunes of powerful monarch are in the hands of the God of Israel. To one monarch He extended grace through physical disablement to allow him to see the evil of arrogance and the wonder of forgiveness. To the other, he crushed without granting the grace of repentance. God controls the hearts of mankind and does as He please.
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