At times other nations oppressed them. Along with the sword, they faced pestilence. There came the devouring locusts. They experienced earthquake and radical disturbances in the weather pattern. Generically He is telling us something.
Righteousness exalts the nation that exalts righteousness.
It s that simple. The seeds of judgment and destruction are built into the very structure of sin itself. Sooner or later the day of reckoning will come. If a nation s leaders and its people do not recognize the enormity of sin, and exalt righteousness, we are in bad trouble. The unbridled practice of wickedness is self-destructive.