Ezekiel 22 says that judgment comes for lack of an intercessor standing in the way. The buck stops here.
30 I looked for someone among them who would become a fence and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. 31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.