24 all the nations will say, ⁱ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they ^jabandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not ^kallotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord ^luprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

19 And when your people say, ^d‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”

10 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^j‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have ^kforsaken me, declares the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and because you have done ^lworse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his ^mstubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. 13 Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and ⁿthere you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

8 “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, ^d“Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?” 9 And they will answer, “Because they have ^eforsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”