your God has driven you. The word “driven” is ironic here. It has been used three times until now, always referring to persons who would drive Israelites away from their God (Deut 13:6,11,14). But now it describes how YHWH drives Israel away to other lands because of Israel’s apostasy. The term is thus another allusion to the fact of divine punishment to fit the crime, which is to say: there is justice.

