18. Not hear. It is too late now to avert national catastrophe. Yet, individual salvation is not precluded. The few “that sigh and that cry for all the abominations” done in the land will be delivered. The rest have chosen destruction by their stubborn course.
By their stubborn refusal to listen to the voice of the Lord calling them to amend their ways, men eventually render themselves deaf to the voice of God. When that time comes God will no longer hear them.