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# So everyone who consumes you will be consumed
Destroying the nation is spoken of as consuming or eating it. This can be stated in active form. AT: "So those who destroy you, their enemies will destroy them" or "So I will destroy everyone who destroys you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# have plundered ... plunder
To plunder is to steal from peaceful people using violence, and plunder is what people steal.
# despoiling ... spoil
To despoil here is to take items from an enemy one has defeated, and the items one takes are the spoil.