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In this chapter, the Author returns to the people of Israel to show them their sins of hypocrisy and their back-sliden and unconcerned exercise of their religion. He declares that God has mercy awaiting them if they repent. Having condemned the Babylonians in the previous chapter, He shows that He will not condone it in any people not even His own people.
He attempts to set the record straight and prepare these people for deliverance from Bondage by showing them their sins and declaring their need of repentance in preparation for it. He charges them with hypocrisy, having a form of their once great religion leaning toward idols in spite of the many proofs in the past of God's existence and protection. Thus He assures them that deliverance, when it comes, will not be on the basis of their merit but no the basis of His mercy.
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