5:1,2
When God told Abraham that He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, he pleaded with God to spare the city if there were ten righteous men. Here God asks Jeremiah if he can find one honest person in the city. And this time the city is Jerusalem, not some pagan place. The people made a pretense of praising and honouring the Lord, but pretense was all that it was. People object to the judgement and wrath of God, but when the judgement comes we can be sure that all other options have been tired. The Biblical truth is that God is slow to anger. It is a lie to say that God is never angry.
5:3
We get a description of all other options have been exhausted. God has struck Israel and Judah before, but they “felt no pain”, i.e. it had no impact on them. God then crushed them, but they did not repent. Instead, they made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. They become all the more stubborn. Sometimes (often?) people will not respond reasonably!
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