²⁰ The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,^(A) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,^(B) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.^(C)

⁸ They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me,^[a] since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshiping other gods.

³³ For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.^(A) They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgments as his father David did.^(B)

¹⁷ because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods in order to anger me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’^(A)

¹⁶ “I will pronounce my judgments against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.^(A)

¹⁹ When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me^(A) and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’^(B)

¹¹ Then you will answer them, ‘Because your ancestors abandoned me^(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them.^(B) Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction.

⁴ because they have abandoned me^(A) and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^(B)