God Compares Jerusalem and Israel With Samaria and Sodom. She Is Worse Than Both.
“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you will not go on committing lewdness above all your abominations.”
This verse connects what has gone before with what now follows. God remorselessly confirms that there is no alternative to judgment. Israel have forgotten all He has done for them, causing Him great distress because they are only harming themselves, and the world to whom they should have been a witness. Thus they must suffer the consequences, for the sake of others who see what occurs (Ezekiel 16:41), for if they do not they will simply magnify their lewdness and become worse and worse, which is something that God cannot allow.