"Be appalled...."

“Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror, declares the Lord.” Jeremiah 2:12.

"These strongest terms in the language show how intensely amazed all the holy in heaven are at the monstrous folly of human sinning. That when men might have the infinite God for their Friend, they choose to have Him their enemy; that when they might have Him their exhaustless portion of unmeasured and eternal good, they spurn Him away and set themselves to the fruitless task of making some ruinous substitute: this is beyond measure amazing! Verily, sin is a mockery of human reason! It defies all the counsels of prudence and good sense, and glories only in its own shame and madness.”

– John Peter Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures – Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical (Zondervan Publishing, quoting Cowles)