כִּ֣י ׀ אֱוִ֣יל עַמִּ֗י אוֹתִי֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ בָּנִ֤ים סְכָלִים֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְלֹ֥א נְבוֹנִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ לְהָרַ֔ע וּלְהֵיטִ֖יב לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃
내 백성은 나를 알지 못하는 우준한 자요 지각이 없는 미련한 자식이라 악을 행하기에는 지각이 있으나 선을 행하기에는 무지하도다
Reshit Chokhmah
How do the tribes of Yehuda and Binyamin know that their negative decree was only signed because of adultery? Since Jeremiah screamed in front of the Creator in the times of Menasheh “even though they did all what you hate they did not sin with sexual misconduct, the sons were the sons of their fathers, and not they are sons of lust,” as it says “My people are foolish” (Jeremiah 4:22), and it says after “They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife” (Jeremiah 5:8). Even though they transgressed all of my precepts and they denied the Creator, as it says “they have denied God” (Jeremiah 5:12), he curbs his anger, and the negative decree against them was signed because of adultery. It says afterward “shall I not punish for these things, says the Lord” (Jeremiah 5:29), the Creator says ‘for everything I retrain [my anger] but for lust I get angry, thus I give them over to the kingdoms,’ as it says “Go through her vineyards and ravage them” (Jeremiah 5:10). They transgress the 10 commandments, and so it says “and I find the woman more bitter than death” (Ecclesiastes 7:26), woe to the sin that transgresses against the 10 commandments.