"And [as for] this house, [which] is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

"Therefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see with your eyes.

"I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

"Edom also shall be an astonishment; Everyone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues.

Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited, But she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all her plagues.

"All nations would say, 'Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'

'for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them.

'And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day.'

"And [as for] this house, [which] is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

"Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this calamity on them.' "

"And it will be when you say, 'Why does the LORD our God do all these [things] to us?' then you shall answer them, 'Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land [that is] not yours.'

And if you say in your heart, "Why have these things come upon me?" For the greatness of your iniquity Your skirts have been uncovered, Your heels made bare.

" And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what [is] our iniquity? Or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

'And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

"And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, 'Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'

"Then they will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.' "

"Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol -- A vessel in which [is] no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?