Judah’s ruined crops and lost honor, whereas the latter text places emphasis on human repentance that activates divine compassion. The syntax recalls Isa 2:2, wehāyâ beʾaḥarît hayyāmîm (“at some future time”), as if to push the event into the remote—and mythic—future. The rare conjunction, wehāyâ ʾaḥarê-kēn, indicates that the current form of 3:1–5 [2:28–32] presupposes something else and therefore cannot be viewed as a separate unit. Of course, the formula may be an editorial means of