7
7
7: I brought you into a fertile
land
to eat its fruit and rich produce.
But you came and defiled my land
and made my inheritance detestable.
to eat its fruit and rich produce.
But you came and defiled my land
and made my inheritance detestable.
11:
But my people have exchanged their glorious God
for worthless idols.
for worthless idols.
12
12: Be appalled at this, you
heavens,
and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.
and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.
13
13: “My people have committed two
sins:
They have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
They have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Look at the Church today in our nation and substitute it
into this passage where reference is made to
Israel. This is not all churches - but how many want the things of this world rather than the things of God?