“Question & Answer”

Question:
How does the prophet describe his nation’s ingratitude and faithlessness to its God?
Answer:
The prophet Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 32:30, quotes God’s scathing indictment of the people of both Kingdoms: ” The children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth.”
It reads in Jeremiah 5:7 NKJV> “How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
It reads in Jeremiah 5:12 NKJV> They have lied about the Lord, And said, “It is not He. Neither will evil come upon us Nor shall we see sword or famine.
It reads in Jeremiah 5:24 NKJV> They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lord our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”,
Because of their sins, as II Kings 17:18-20 NKJV> indicates, Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. Also, Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers until He had cast them from His sight.