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   ocr: But what is the object of Judah's desire? Incredibly, she is trading the glory of God for worthless idols of wood and stone God, the wounded lover, cannot comprenend his people's actions. and neither can Jeremiah. Jeremiah had two main complaints against Judah: She prostituted herself both through idol worship and through alliances with foreign nations. When a military threat loomed, Judah turned to empires like Assyria, Egypt, or Babylon for help, not to God. Josiah, one of Judah's all-time best kings, led a mostly successful campaign to rid the nation of idols. But even Josiah succumbed to t ...