Today’s chapter is also instructive and helpful. God tells of small punishments which He has sent as a warning to Israel. But they would not take any notice. Count up the number of times in this chapter that He says “yet have ye not returned unto me.”
V.12 So the final warning “prepare to meet thy God.”
This chapter commences — and continues to the end of the book — to give the pleadings of God to His people, to turn from their wickedness, for He knew He could not bless them unless they did turn.