“There was loose conduct in your uncleanness. For that reason I had to cleanse you, but you did not become clean from your uncleanness. You will become clean no more until I cause my rage to come to its rest in your case.

The start of the Babylonian siege proved that Jerusalem, the capital of the Kingdom of Judah, had refused to be cleansed from spiritually loose conduct. In fact, her uncleanness would not end until Jehovah brought his rage to rest by having the bloodguilty city destroyed.