[BOOK II]
PROPHECIES CONCERNING FOREIGN NATIONS
[CHAPTER XVI]
JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS
xxv. 15-38.
"Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."—Jer. xxv. 31.
As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and activity extend beyond the family and the household, so Israel in its childhood thought of Jehovah as exclusively concerned with itself.