10 “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’(A) 11 then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped(B) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.(C) 12 But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.(D) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts(E) instead of obeying me. 13 So I will throw you out of this land(F) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,(G) and there you will serve other gods(H) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’(I)

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10 And then[a] when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, ‘Why[b] has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?’ 11 Then you shall say to them, ‘Because[c] your ancestors[d] have forsaken me,’ declares[e] Yahweh, ‘and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws. 12 And you have behaved badly[f] more than your ancestors,[g] and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me. 13 So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors,[h] and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:10 Literally “And it will happen”
  2. Jeremiah 16:10 Literally “On what”
  3. Jeremiah 16:11 Literally “On that”
  4. Jeremiah 16:11 Or “fathers”
  5. Jeremiah 16:11 Literally “a declaration of”
  6. Jeremiah 16:12 Literally “you have done evil to do”
  7. Jeremiah 16:12 Or “fathers”
  8. Jeremiah 16:13 Or “fathers”