“Thus says Yahweh of hosts!
The God of Israel!
‘You yourselves have seen
All the disaster
That I have brought
On Jerusalem,
As well as on all the towns
Of Judah.
Look at them!
Today they are a desolation.
No one lives in them.
Because of the wickedness
That they committed,
They provoked me to anger.
They went
To make offerings.
They served other gods
That they had not known,
Neither they,
Nor you,
Nor your ancestors.’”
Yahweh, the God of Israel, via Jeremiah, reminded them of the disaster in Jerusalem and Judah. They saw with their own eyes. No one lives there anymore because of the wickedness of the people who had lived there before. They had committed evil that provoked Yahweh to anger. They had made offerings and served other gods that neither they, nor their ancestors had ever known. Their big sin was offering and serving gods other than Yahweh.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 