Jerusalem’s fall opens salvation to the nations

Jerusalem divides the word toward the enemies, whom she wants to hear, and toward God. But why does she call the enemies unto hearing? And what does she say to God about them—as that they rejoiced? Perhaps, then, since by her and Israel’s stumbling the salvation has come to be for the nations unto making them jealous, and when the fullness of the nations has entered, then all Israel will be saved—toward those from the nations she speaks the first things prophetically, and toward God the second. I have been left to suffer so that you may receive room, and I have become because of you an enemy of God, though according to the election beloved because of the fathers. Therefore, having heard my groaning, understand also the cause of this; for completely unto your salvation I have been left behind, not having the one always comforting me after trial of evils. For now a ruler has failed from Judah, and a leader from the thighs; for he has come for whom the things laid away were, the expectation of the nations—whose blood being avenged, there is no longer anyone comforting Jerusalem.