NOTES for Jer 8:1-22
The destruction of Jerusalem could have been prevented if not for people's indifference. After all, the repentance God requires of them is not such a difficult thing. But "no one repents of his wickedness" - people simply do not want to see the problem, and it simply interests no one.
Perhaps this kind of spiritual indifference is the most terrible and hardest disease to cure: it is impossible to live without God, difficult to live with God, and easiest of all simply not to think about Him. And really, why all this fanaticism? But the point is that there are always people for whom faith is not a hobby, not an obsessive idea, people for whom God is a reality present in life far more actively than all other interests and needs. Then a conflict inevitably arises between the prophet and society, leading either to the overcoming of human indifference or to a more tragic outcome...