Verse 11
Yet the prophet was full of messages announcing God’s coming wrath that he felt incapable of containing. The Lord instructed him to pour out his pent-up messages of wrath on everyone in Jerusalem-children, adolescents, husbands, wives, older people, and the very aged-because all of them would be taken captive.
"Ancient Near Eastern war was essentially total in nature, so that a city which resisted a siege unsuccessfully could only expect complete destruction, without respect to property, age or sex." [Note: Harrison, Jeremiah and . . ., p. 81.]
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