SIN is a reproach to ANY Nation.
Proverbs 14:34b
'Corruption' is merely one side effect of SIN. (Don't look for this word anywhere in media today. You can find all sorts of EVIL being described; but it is NEVER attributed to SIN.)
This nation will thrash about; looking for an ANSWER anywhere but returning to GOD.
How far will we have to sink before we wise up?
IF...
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
The OTHER part of Proverbs 14:34a...
Righteousness exalts a nation...
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.