The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.

"Who is the LORD?" the king demanded. "Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD; and I will not let Israel go."

That whole generation also died, and the next generation forgot the LORD and what he had done for Israel.

The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the LORD

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you, on the people who do not pray to you.

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The LORD says, "My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God."

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you and on the people who reject you. They have killed your people; they have destroyed us completely and left our country in ruins.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.

with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

They claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.