As Israel prospered she just built more altars to false gods. She did this because her heart was deceitful. As a nation does well it seeks to find any reason to attribute this to other than God. See how desperate some atheists are to attribute creation to anyone and anything but God. So the Lord would demolish their altar stones. Remember that these altars were also places where child sacrifice and all sorts of prostitution took place. On the altar of a godless society all sorts of atrocities can take place.
"Lawsuits spring up like a poisonous weed". This sounds like a very apt description of society today. Our justice systems seems to do anything but dispense justice. This happens because we are a society without a compass, without moral direction from God.
So the nation would be taken into exile and her altars destroyed. Their she would mourn.
Yet towards the end of this chapter we get a ray of hope in verse 12. There is always a way out, if only we will turn to the Lord. We are to sow righteousness, then we will reap the fruit of God's unfailing love. We are to seek the Lord. This breaks up us the unploughed ground. Problems and situations that seemed intractable will suddenly become solvable if only we will turn to the Lord.
Instead the nation had planted wickedness, instead they had relied upon their own strength. So disaster will come.
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