Debauch Nation

[Jer. 5:9] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
[18] Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
[19] And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
[21] Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Reproof for sin and threatening of judgment are intermixed, are threatened, that the reproofs of sin might be the more effectual to bring them to repentance. The sins they are charged with are very great: Injustice, hypocrisy in religion, incorrigibleness, the corruption, and debauchery of both poor and rich, idolatry and adultery, treacherous departures from G-d, and impudent defiance of Him. Wanting of the fear of G-d, but notwithstanding the frequent calls given them to fear Him therefore they are charged with violence and oppression, and a combination of those to debauch the nation who should have been active to reform it.
Have we learned from this or repeated their same mistakes?
History now repeats itself!
We swear falsely, tho' G-d is a G-d of truth; we are incorrigible and senseless, and know not His Law, or else willfully violate it having contempt of G-d's Word and Prophets, which should be sadly verified. We forsake, forget, and fear not G-d, whose power is so great for we were not taught G-d is also a ‘just Father’ who will hold us accountable.
The cause of the judgments to be inflicted is the universal corruption of the people. This was not the case with the low and ignorant only, but more egregiously so with those of the higher order, from whose knowledge and opportunities better things might have been expected.
G-d gives leave to all the earth to look into the state of Jerusalem, by which He vindicates Himself in the face of the whole world from all severity towards His people, whatever He brings upon them, He will bring upon the nations, which means us.
If there be here and there a man or woman that is truly conscientious, and does at least speak the truth, yet you shall not find him in the streets and broad places; he dares not appear publicly, lest he should be abused and run down, this is were we are heading!
What do you make of those that continue to make profession of religion and relation to G-d? Many are not sincere in the profession they make of respect to G-d, but are false to Him; they honor Him with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him. Though they appeal to G-d only, they make no conscience of calling Him to witness to a lie. Though they do not swear by idols, they forswear themselves, which is no less an affront to G-d, as the G-d of truth, than the other is as the only true G-d.
23] But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
“Even in those days, dismal as they are, I will not make a full end with you”; and, if G-d will not, the enemy shall not. G-d has mercy in store for His people, and therefore will set bounds to this desolating judgment. Hitherto it shall come, and no further. Not even in these days of judgments, will G-d utterly exterminate His people.
Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge G-d with injustice in their afflictions, and pretend they have to seek for the cause of them when it is written in the forehead of them. Foolish people and without understanding; they apprehend not the mind of G-d, though ever so plainly declared to them by the written Word, by His prophets, and by His providence.
We cannot judge men by the advantages and opportunities they enjoy: there are those that sit in darkness in a land of light, that live in sin even in a Holy Land, that are bad in the best places. Their wills were stubborn and unapt to submit to the rules of the Divine Law.
People have a revolting and a rebellious heart; and no wonder when they were foolish and without understanding, Psalms 82:5. It is the corrupt bias of the will that bribes and besots the understanding: none as blind as those that will not see. The character of people is the true character of all people by nature, till the grace of G-d has wrought a change. We are foolish, slow of understanding, and apt to mistake and forget; yet that is not the worst. We have a revolting and a rebellious heart, a carnal mind, that is enmity against
G-d, and is not in subjection to His Law, not only revolting from Him by a rooted aversion to that which is good, but rebellious against Him by a strong inclination to that which is evil. The revolting heart is a rebellious one: those that withdraw from their allegiance to G-d do not stop there, but by siding in with sin and Satan take up arms against him.
Who would stand in the gap to turn away the wrath of G-d? Who executed judgment and made conscience of what he or she says or does; that executes judgment, and administers justice impartially, that will put the laws in execution against vice and profaneness?