Fishers, Hunters, and Double Recompense Lead to Recognition

Fishers and hunters search every hole because ways are not hid

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from out of the holes of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

Fishing and hunting images do not authorize human pursuit, trafficking, or collective punishment. Inescapable accountability is the point. Double recompense here is this oracle's measure, not a formula for later readers to extract payment from a people.

Nations will confess inherited lies, and the Name will be known

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.

The confession of nations must not become contempt for other religions or for Jewish neighbors. Inherited lies are the nations' own admission in the prayer, not a sneer you get to make for them. Knowing the Name is revelation, not coerced conversion.