Jeremiah 9:17

17. Because they have forsaken my law Thus far the challenge to attention: now follows the formal and fearful statement of the people’s sin and misery. They had openly and wilfully and persistently disobeyed the laws of Jehovah. They had deliberately prostituted themselves to the service of Baalim, (see Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 2:23,) and hence the penalty threatened in the law (Leviticus 26:33) will be inflicted.