The Lord continues to plead with the people to turn back to Him. It is like a man who has a wife who has left him for other men.
V.2 The prophet is told here to stand in the “gate of the Lord’s house.”
V.4 From the gate of the temple, he warns them, that although they boasted about their fine temple, and their religion, yet the Lord could see their evil hearts and their sinful ways.
V.13-14 The Lord reminds them that He had often warned them, but they would not hear, and so He sadly tells them that the very temple of which they boasted, would be destroyed. And this actually happened when king Nebuchadnezzar came a little while later.
V.18 They had not only turned from the Lord, but they had worshipped false gods, idols, instead. This is often called “adultery” that is, a turning from God Who loved them, to false idols.
V.25 In spite of their many years of guilt and idolatry, God had continued to plead with them through His prophets.
V.34 This was the sad and terrible condition that actually happened to the cities of Israel, because of their sin.