Jeremías 32:23

23 y entraron, y la poseyeron; mas no oyeron tu voz, ni anduvieron en tu ley; nada hicieron de lo que les mandaste hacer; por tanto has hecho venir sobre ellos todo este mal

Jeremías 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:23

And they came in and possessed it
After forty years travel in the wilderness; they entered into it with Joshua at the head of them, and the Lord with them; giving victory over the Canaanites, who were soon subdued; and the Israelites with little trouble settled in their land, which was divided to them by lot, and possessed as their inheritance: but they obeyed not thy voice;
though they promised at Sinai they would, and though they were so much obliged by the goodness of God to them; this shows great ingratitude in them: neither walked in thy law;
moral, ceremonial, and judicial, given at Harsh as the rule of their obedience; but they walked not according to it: they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do;
they were not only deficient in some things, but in everything; they not only broke some of the laws of God, but all of them; there was not one law, one command, observed by them as it ought to have been; and yet these people were always prone to establish their own righteousness, and seek for justification by it: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them;
the Chaldean army, now besieging them; and the famine and pestilence among them; which, the prophet serves, were but the righteous judgments of God upon them for their sins.

Jeremías 32:23 In-Context

21 y sacaste tu pueblo Israel de tierra de Egipto con señales y portentos, y con mano fuerte y brazo extendido, con terror grande

22 y les diste esta tierra, de la cual juraste a sus padres que se la darías, tierra que mana leche y miel

23 y entraron, y la poseyeron; mas no oyeron tu voz, ni anduvieron en tu ley; nada hicieron de lo que les mandaste hacer; por tanto has hecho venir sobre ellos todo este mal

24 He aquí que con arietes han acometido la ciudad para tomarla; y la ciudad es entregada en mano de los caldeos que pelean contra ella, a causa de la espada, y del hambre y de la pestilencia; ha pues, venido, a ser lo que tú dijiste, y he aquí tú lo estás viendo

25 Y tú Señor DIOS me dijiste a mí: Cómprate la heredad por dinero, y pon testigos; y la ciudad es entregada en manos de los caldeos