This is interesting. God would certainly have to punish them for their sins, but He reminds them of another time long before. The time of Jacob, when he had wrestled with the angel of the Lord, and Jacob had won. And the angel was the Lord Himself! Jacob had succeeded in turning away the Lord’s anger and the Lord had told Jacob His name. “Now”, says the Lord to these people “you do the same. Turn back to Me. Wait for Me. I don’t change”. Just think of the mercy of the Lord toward Israel in spite of everything He said to them, they just brushed Him aside. And yet the day is going to come when He is going to make them the center of the whole world! Does this make you thank the Lord for what He has done for you? Or are we still careless? Do we drift back to the worldly pleasures and entertainments? May the Lord touch our hearts.