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# So everyone who consumes you will be consumed

Destroying the nation is spoken of as consuming or eating it. This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "So those who destroy you, their enemies will destroy them" or "So I will destroy everyone who destroys you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])

# have plundered ... plunder

To plunder is to steal from peaceful people using violence, and plunder is what people steal.

# despoiling ... spoil

To despoil here is to take items from an enemy one has defeated, and the items one takes are the spoil.