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Deuteronomy 29:24

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Then all the other nations in the world will ask, “Why has the Lord done this to their land? Why is he so angry?”

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They rejected his decrees, the promise  he made to their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They went after worthless idols and became as worthless as the idols. They behaved like the nations around them, although the Lord had commanded them not to do that.

This happened because they refused to obey the Lord their God and disregarded the conditions of the promise  he made to them. They refused to obey everything that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.

You have abandoned the Lord and forgotten my holy mountain. You have prepared a table for the god of good fortune and offered cups full of spiced wine to the goddess of destiny.

“When you tell the people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why does the Lord threaten us with all these disasters? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against the Lord our God?’

It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.

The captain of the guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened to bring this disaster on this place.

They will ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?” Answer them, “You have abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land. So you will serve foreigners in a land that isn’t yours.”

Neither the kings of the earth nor anyone living on earth could believe that enemies or invaders would ever get through the gates of Jerusalem.

You will be comforted when you see how they live. Then you will know that everything I have done was done for a reason,” declares the Almighty Lord.

“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will give you what you deserve. You despised your marriage vows and rejected my promise.

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.




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