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10 And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, “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?”(A) 11 then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,(B) 12 and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.(C) 13 Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.(D)

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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”