“Therefore all who devour you
Shall be devoured.
All your foes,
Every one of them,
Shall go into captivity.
Those who plundered you
Shall be plundered.
All who preyed on you,
I will make a prey.
I will restore health to you.
I will heal your wounds.
Says Yahweh!
Because they have called you
An outcast.
‘It is Zion.
No one cares for her!’”
Yahweh seems to reverse himself, saying that he will heal and cure the incurable wounds that Israel had. Instead, those who were devouring Israel will be devoured. All of their enemies will go into captivity. Those who plundered them will be plundered themselves. Yahweh was going to prey on anyone who preyed on them. He was going to heal all the wounds that Israel had. He was upset that others had called them, Zion, an outcast that no one cared about.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 