And now I shall uncover her private parts to the eyes of her passionate lovers, and there will be no man to snatch her out of my hand.

Jehovah could properly lay bare to public gaze the nation’s moral unreliableness and looseness, so that even its worldly allies would turn against it in disdain.

The nation could not claim exemption from being punished just because it had descended from the faithful patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and the twelve tribal heads who were the sons of Jacob. Fleshly connections with such men will be of no power or merit for snatching the nation out of Jehovah’s hand when he executes adverse judgment.

21. Despite its line of natural descent, what earlier covenant of Jehovah did Israel prove unfit to share in fulfilling?

²¹ This did not mean that Jehovah did not remember and stick to the covenant that he had made with his friend Abraham away back in 1943 B.C.E. Jehovah swore by himself to that covenant and will never break it, but adulterous Israel did not prove worthy to have a part in the fulfillment of that covenant even though it had natural descent from Abraham.