⁷ “Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster^(A) on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women,^(B) the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?^{(C) 8} Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made,^(D) burning incense^(E) to other gods in Egypt,^(F) where you have come to live?^(G) You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse^[a] and an object of reproach^(H) among all the nations on earth. ⁹ Have you forgotten the wickedness committed by your ancestors^(I) and by the kings^(J) and queens^(K) of Judah and the wickedness committed by you and your wives^(L) in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem?^(M)