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,

10 He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. ^vFor the people of Israel have ^wforsaken your covenant, ^xthrown down your altars, and ^ykilled your prophets with the sword, and ^zI, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”