This is a picture of what happens when a nation or an individual turns their backs on God and refuse to turn back to Him and away from their sins.
- Sin captivates its participants. Judah had been taken as captives to Babylon, just as Jeremiah the prophet had warned.
- Sin stills us. They sat down. They had no motivation to rejoice. When we are out of the will of God there is no reason to rejoice until we turn around.
- Sin brings bitter tears and sad memories. They wept when they remembered Zion, another word for the holy city of Jerusalem. Do you remember the days and nights of living for the Lord and enjoying the peace that passes all understanding?
- Sin silences our music. Once happy, singing and playing their harps, now they have hung their harps upon the willow trees of Babylon. Their music is silenced. That’s what sin does. Our reason for singing is gone when we sin and do not repent.
- Sin on the part of God’s people brings mockery from the devil’s crowd. “Sing us one of the songs of Zion,” the Babylonians said to the backslidden Jews who were paying a tremendous price for their folly. “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”
Individuals, churches, homes and nations cannot ignore God and His word and not pay the consequences.
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