Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn
Usually, when Israel abandoned the way of the Lord, their hearts went after idols and gods to worship them, rejecting their Loving Lord, rejected the call to repentance from the prophets, chose and followed unjust rulers, compromised the things of the Lord, contaminated themselves with the evil around them and basically with their actions told the Lord they did not want His Presence and His Will, but that they wanted to go their way, then......God allowed them to have what they wanted or thought they wanted. Usually....they remembered the Lord when things went wrong and they were in peril then they called out to Him and seeked Him but sometimes it was for a time only.
IMO, it should be our prayer today that the Lord will awaken those that knowing better have chosen the wrong path, those that when the Lord has given us a good clear choice are ready to make the wrong choice for whatever personal reasons or because they have been deceived. We should pray that the Lord will spare us and the nation for the sake of those that still seek Him and want His Will and Honor Him.
1Kgs:19:18: Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
16: Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17: But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive