The Lord's Response to the Lament of the Prophet

Despite frequent overtures to his wayward people, the people had stubbornly refused to respond or to call upon his name. Their practices and rituals seem to involve a direct and intentional upending of the purity code. They richly engaging in certain forms of uncleanness, as if to obtain a sort of inverted holiness by which they would be drawn into closer connection with forces of death and the underworld. It should not surprise us that this was such an abomination to the lord, provoking his indignation against the high handed rebellion of such a people. In the lord's justice, the judgment for this continued occult and idolatrous practice would come upon them all at once.