1. God is grieved (6:1-14)

God longed to bless his people, but they grieved him by their adulterous hearts (9) and their lusting after foreign idols. He punished them by the swords of foreign armies. These armies demolished the idols and slew the people in front of the pagan altars. God did these things so that his people would know that God is God, loathe themselves for the evil they had done, and repent (7,10,13a,14b).

2. The end has come (7:1-27)

The day of God's judgment will surely come. He will judge all people according to their conduct and by their own standards (3,4,8,9,27). He will destroy them from the outside with the sword and on the inside with plague and famine (15). On the day of God's wrath gold and silver will be worth nothing (19). In all these things, God's purpose remains the same: to let all people know that he is the Sovereign Lord.

Application: Lord, help me not to grieve you, but to worship and love and serve you.
One Word: Know that the Lord is God