dealt with in due time, but they will be dealt with under different principles. Their judgment will not be remedial but destructive. Chastisement is only for God’s people. “God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement … then are ye bastards, and not sons” (Hebrews 12:7, 8). The famine of food, though it was great, was not the worst part of the ruin recorded in our text. An even worse part of the