Jeremías 32:23

23 Pero cuando entraron y tomaron posesión de ella, no te obedecieron ni acataron tu ley, ni tampoco hicieron lo que les habías ordenado. Por eso les enviaste toda esta desgracia.

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 Tú, con gran despliegue de poder, y con milagros, prodigios y gran terror, sacaste de Egipto a tu pueblo.

22 Le diste a Israel esta tierra, donde abundan la leche y la miel, tal como se lo habías jurado a sus antepasados.

23 Pero cuando entraron y tomaron posesión de ella, no te obedecieron ni acataron tu ley, ni tampoco hicieron lo que les habías ordenado. Por eso les enviaste toda esta desgracia.

24 Ahora las rampas de ataque han llegado hasta la ciudad para conquistarla. A causa de la espada, el hambre y la pestilencia, la ciudad caerá en manos de los babilonios que la atacan. SEÑOR, todo lo que habías anunciado se está cumpliendo, y tú mismo lo estás viendo.

25 SEÑOR mi Dios, a pesar de que la ciudad caerá en manos de los babilonios, tú me has dicho: “Cómprate el campo al contado en presencia de testigos”».