¹⁰ “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^(A)‘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: ^(B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and ^(C)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

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

²⁴ all the nations ^(A)will say, ^(B)‘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 abandoned 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,

⁸ And this house will become a heap of ruins.^[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ ⁹ Then they will say, ‘Because ^(B)they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.’”