Finally in verse 11 we hear God claim this army as His own. God nurtured a nation in such a way as to raise up out of it an army with which He could punish His very own people, Judah. The instrument that God decides to employ for His purposes cannot be thwarted—God’s creatures cannot frustrate His plans. Whoever God decides to use will be empowered with the power that God Himself used to create the universe so they can accomplish the thing He has them determined to do—and they do it because they want to; the Babylonians weren’t forced against their will to invade Judah knowing someday that, even though they were being used by God as an means of judgment, they would be judged themselves for that very act. What they meant for evil, God meant for the good of His plan and story. And here we close the section with yet another reference to the DotL. The destruction distributed on Judah prefigured that final Day of Judgment.
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