Judah comes now before the Lord's tribunal, and though for a while separated from Israel, yet not from Israel's God. We find the Lord himself speaking of both by the Prophet, under one and the same character. Jeremiah 3:6-19. Here we ought to pause, and to consider the awfulness of Judah's apostasy from the Lord. Reader! punishment and correction must be used, even with God's children, when tenderness and expostulation fail to call home the heart to the Lord. Psalms 89:30-32.
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Amos 2:4-5
4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.