The nations that fought against Jerusalem will be struck with a plague. The plague is uniquely unpleasant with their eyes and tongues rotting away. There are various ways we could imagine this sort of thing happening today. It could be radiation from a nuclear war, something like the ebola virus, or some chemical or biological warfare agent. However, speculating on the exact nature of it is not particularly helpful or important, it could even be something way beyond our imagination. The key thing is that all the nations will be defeated and the wealth of nations will be brought to Jerusalem.
There will be survivors from the nations, and these survivors will worship the Lord. Indeed there will be punishment for the nations that do not worship the Lord.The Egyptians may be singled out because they did not depend directly on rainfall for their water, but on the flooding of the Nile. They are assured that they too will not escape the judgement.
We need to understand that the end of all people is to worship the Lord or die. He is not one god among many, but the only true God. He is the ultimate truth.
Everything will be devoted to the Lord, everything will be holy. The reference to their being no Canaanites is not a racist statement, rather it means that there will not be any impurity in the nation. At last she will be completely devoted to the Lord.
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