I think this is more about living your life in a place like Babylon ,but not Babylon.I thinks it's about a life that went in the wrong direction , to the road that leads to the wrong life and spending time in that life , so much time that you can no longer see your life as it would have been.Spending time in Babylon.Then finding yourself one day being struck by God as a wake up call, not listening to that call and continuing your life unabated , then another call and a way out ,god telling you that you are not your own but a spirit that belongs to the universe , a universe that will only let you go so far before you destroy completely that which is you, emerging as a shadow of the person you were when you entered Babylon but a shadow that can see God's will for you .That's the part where the withered limb is offered ,free at last from the constraints that kept you in Babylon.
I think this is more about living your life in a place like Babylon ,but not Babylon.I thinks it's about a life that went in the wrong direction , to the road that leads to the wrong life and spending time in that life , so much time that you can no longer see your life as it would have been.Spending time in Babylon.Then finding yourself one day being struck by God as a wake up call, not listening to that call and continuing your life unabated , then another call and a way out ,god telling you that you are not your own but a spirit that belongs to the universe , a universe that will only let you go so far before you destroy completely that which is you, emerging as a shadow of the person you were when you entered Babylon but a shadow that can see God's will for you .That's the part where the withered limb is offered ,free at last from the constraints that kept you in Babylon.