Jeremiah 6:8

These announcements were to function as a warning to the people of Judah, who still had time to repent before the enemy from the north would descend. If they did not repent, the results would be alienation from God (in captivity), the desolation of their city and their lives, and the ruination of their land.

"We may be reminded of the care lavished in our own day on presenting and practising [sic] an ’alternative morality’, and may be warned, with Jerusalem . . ." [Note: Kidner, p. 45.]