²⁴ And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁵ and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not apportioned to them.^{(A) 26 (B)}So the anger of the Lord flared up against this land and brought on it every curse written in this book. ²⁷ The Lord uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them out into another land, as they are today.”