Chapter 5 - Injustice
In this chapter a search is undertaken. God sends a search looking for even one person who does justice and seeks truth.
None can be found.
More metaphors next, “a lion shall strike them down, a wolf shall devastate them, a leopard is stalking and will tear people apart”.
Idolatry is again described, but then the chapter focuses on injustice.
”They judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper and they do not defend the rights of the needy.”
The agent of the oncoming devastation is introduced. There will be a nation from the north who will come and “eat up your harvest and eat up your sons and daughters.” Yet even then,”, God says, “I will not make a full end of you.”
The people may have broken covenant, but God has not. God will not forget those who have been victimized, but God will not utterly destroy even those who have turned away.