They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done what I did to it.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.
When people ask, “For what offence has the Lord our God done all these things to us? ”, you will respond to them, “Just as you abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”
‘When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, “Why has the Lord declared all this terrible disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? ”
They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.
because they did not listen to the Lord their God but violated his covenant #– #all he had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.
This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt #– #my covenant that they broke even though I am their master’ , #– #the Lord’s declaration.
‘ “For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.