Refusing to listen and obey God’s righteous instruction, despite God’s providing the will power to do so, and instead choosing to do evil, is reason to deserve divine judgement and justice for one’s iniquity.
Jeremiah 16:10-12
10 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
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