Jeremiah 5: 1,Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now,and know, and seek in the broad places there of, if ye can find a Man, if there be any that Execute Judgment, that seek the truth; and I will pardon it. And though they say,the Lord liveth, surly they swear falsely. O Lord are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consume them, but they have refused to receive correction:They have made there faces harder than a rock. they have refuse to return.
God had plainly warned the people, of impending Judgment; but they failed to take heed. The punishment of the northern kingdom did not produce any change in Judah’s waywardness; So they did not return to God. And has to face the Judgment of God. In Micah 5: 2, we read But thou Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.[The promise of the coming Messiah]
Micah 6: 8 He hath shewed thee, O Man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?[ When the People or Nation does not heed God’s warning, and repent, But presumptuously sin against God, and do not hearken to His word and repent, they leave themselves open to God Judgment.] God is a merciful God; But He will but He be true to His word. and let us thank God for his Grace.
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