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21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
'Poverty' signifies a defect of one's knowledges of truth and good.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 238)
27 And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon and to all his house.