# whitewashing

The word "whitewashing" refers to covering a surface with a white liquid mixture to cover up impurities and make the surface white.

# I will send hailstones to make it fall down, and a windstorm wind to break it down

Yahweh refers to the judgment that he will send upon the people as if it were a severe storm that breaks down the wall. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# hailstones

balls of ice that sometimes falls from the sky during a rainstorm.