V.1-7 The greatest punishment is going to fall on the city of Jerusalem, because she had been God’s center on earth, privileged above all. God tells about all the sinfulness He saw. The responsible men, her princes, her judges, her prophets, her priests. The higher the privileges, the severer the punishment.
V.5 Refers to the Millennium. Every day those who disobeyed the Lord will die.
V.7 As it were the Lord said, “surely after all I have done, they will pay attention to Me.” But they even became more corrupt!
V.8 He tells the remnant to hold on and wait for Him.
V.9 In the Millennium, each Israelite will have a pure heart, no one among them, will disobey the Lord (Heb. 8:11-1311And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:11‑13)).
V.10 This refers to the scattered 10 tribes — and they are still today. The Lord will call them to return to the land of Israel.
V.14-20 A glorious time for Israel. All the disobedient ones will be taken away.
V.15 The Lord will be their King in those thousand years of joy and glory on this earth.
V.17 The Lord God in their midst will joy over them with singing. In this chapter you will find: (1) The just Lord in the midst, (2) The King of Israel in the midst, (3) The Lord thy God in the midst.