Jeremiah 8

v13. "I will take away their harvest, declares the Lord. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them."

A medieval philosopher named Boethius was once one of the most prominent figures in the western world. He held this position called the consul, and it was considered the 2nd most powerful under the king. But one day, he lost all that and was practically exiled and thrown into a mangy old prison for preaching his Christian theology/philosophy, and while he was in prison he wrote "Consolations of Philosophy", which he basically complains how bitter his life turned out to be. He says that his fortune turned to misfortune, and that it's not fair that he got screwed over even though there was nothing he did wrong. But how lady Philosophy consoles him is by saying how he never had anything to begin with. Everything that he had, was given to him and was never fully 100% all completely his.

In this passage, i think God's saying the same thing as lady Philosophy. God led you out of Egypt and slavery, He led them into this promise land, He gave them everything...and when God takes it away because they were falling into sin and never repented, they groaned saying that it was unfair. But God's not being unfair; THEY were. Doesn't make sense to go stab someone in the back after giving you everything you've ever asked for. God is a God of grace and mercy, so much more than we can ever imagine. And to piss him off like this, the people of Judah really must have messed up. God got so angry that he took everything away from them. He had their worst enemies plan and go attack them, pillage their houses and farmland, and even broke apart families. When 'misfortune' happens, we shouldn't grumble about how unfair life is; instead, we should really check how sinful we are and maybe this is what we deserve instead of all the blessings from God.