¹⁸ “Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make a complete destruction of you. ¹⁹ And it shall come about ^(A)when ^[a]they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have abandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will ^(B)serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’