Yet you said, I am innocent: only let His wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, in that you say, I have not sinned.

And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? That you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.

And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.

and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What [is] this great fierceness of anger?

And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which He appointed to their fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt,

And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them.

And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment for myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.