²⁴ And all the nations will say, ‘^(A)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’ ²⁵ Then men will say, ‘^(B)Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not apportioned to them.

⁸ And this house will become ^[a](A)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will feel desolate and hiss and say, ‘^(B)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’ ⁹ And they will say, ‘^(C)Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore Yahweh has brought all this calamity on them.’”

^20 (A)then I will uproot you from My land which I have given ^[a]you, and this house which I have set apart as holy for My name I will cast out of My presence and I will make it ^(B)a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ²¹ As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will feel desolate and say, ‘^(C)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’ ²² And they will say, ‘Because ^(D)they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.’”

¹⁰ “Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘^(A)For what reason has Yahweh declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against Yahweh our God?’