Other translations say that the people will become easy prey, and many disasters, calamities, distresses, and adversities will come upon them. It won't matter if they have a high-tech border or the strongest military in the region, or even in the whole world. If God's nation doesn't want the Almighty as its sovereign and it rejects Him, then He hides His face and pulls back His providence, allowing time and chance and natural and even supernatural forces to wreak havoc, affecting even the most helpless and least deserving of violence. When God hides His face, it opens the way for truly terrible things to happen. But the source of the problem is that the people forsake Him and break the covenant.
