While God finds it difficult to punish Israel, the nation He loves, He felt compelled to punish Israel for their evil and wrongdoing because He could not overlook sin. However, within his justice, there would be mercy.
God’s exceptional and unparalleled love for this nation has
always been more powerful and enduring than anything experienced in human
relationships. His people would indeed be expelled from their land; however, He
would not eradicate them forever like he did Sodom, Gomorrah, and other cities.
Though God would use enemies to deal with Israel, He would
defeat those whom He had used to deal with her. God would ultimately free his
people from being held captive and bring them back to their back to their
homeland.
God loves us as we are, but He loves us too much to allow us
to stay the way we are. The lesson from
these verses is this: even when God chastises us, He will deal with it with
mercy and hope. He deals with us not to destroy us but to align us so that we
can fully appreciate and embrace His love. He desires to restore us, not to
destroy us.
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