Our reading today ends with, "You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions [evil], for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD." God exudes mercy and grace, but He is also a just God Who has limits to rebellious rejection and disobedience and evil. He has a commitment to His Name and also must consider consider the welfare of other people. At some point He takes definitive action.
For hundreds of years, the Israelites were disobedient to God. God sent discipline and prophets to warn. At this time in history, He has decided to send His nation into exile and to have His Temple destroyed as a permanent lesson for the Israelites - and to all other people. We should never presume upon the grace and mercy of God just because we think that we are "His people." There is a proper response to God's mercy and grace that suggests a true understanding of what a relationship with God means.
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