The Divine Answer: First, Judgment for Sin

26 Then there came to Jeremiah the following message from Jehovah: 27 I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for Me? 28 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold! I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 29 Yes, the Chaldeans that are assailing this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have provoked Me by burning sacrifice to the Baal and by offering drink-offerings to other gods; 30 for, ever since their youth the people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight. 31 From the day it was built up to this day, this city has provoked Me to remove it, in wrath and fury, out of My sight, 32 for all the evil that the people of Israel and Judah have wrought to vex Me – themselves, with their kings, princes, priests and prophets, with the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. 33 They have turned their backs to Me instead of their faces; and though I taught them early and late, they would never listen or accept correction. 34 The very House that bears My name they have defiled by introducing into it their abominable worship. 35 They have built Baal sanctuaries in the Valley of the son of Hinnom for the (fiery) consecration of their sons and daughters to Molech, though this was no commandment of Mine – it never entered into My mind that they should do this abomination, and thus involve Judah in sin.