7:10
Israel was mocked, and even today there are many who denigrate Israel. The church is mocked in the West, and just as Israel in many ways deserved her mocking, so the church deserves much of the mockery she receives. But this is not how things will remain, for the strength of Israel does not lie in Israel herself, and the strength of the church does not lie within the church. Indeed, Israel went wrong when she thought her strength was her own, just as the church goes wrong in the same way. But Israel is God’s nation, and the church is Christ’s, so the final outcome will be Israel turns to her God, to Christ, and that the church, even in the West, will recognise that Christ alone is Lord, and then things will change. “She will be trampled down in the mud”. The streets in those days were the dumping ground for all sorts of rubbish, including human waste.
7:11-13
The walls in this verse are not fortification walls, but boundary walls. There shall be proper boundary walls established again, rather than the rich and powerful taking whatever took their fancy. In that day people from many places will come to Israel. Verse 13 could possibly be seen as a result of human pollution, but it will be as a result of God’s judgement on man’s sin.
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