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Accept discipline, Jerusalem ... make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land
Here God speaks to the people of Jerusalem as if he were speaking to the city itself. Alternate translation: "Accept discipline, you people of Jerusalem ... make your land into a ruin, an uninhabited land" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)
Accept discipline
"Accept discipline" here is a metaphor for learning from discipline. Alternate translation: "Learn from your discipline" or "When I punish you, learn to do what is right" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)
an uninhabited land
"a land that has no people living in it"