Jeremiah 22:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another: “Why has the Lord done this to so great a city?”

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:10

When you proclaim all these words to this people and they ask you: “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the Lord, our God?”—

Jeremiah 40:2

The captain of the bodyguard took charge of Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord, your God, decreed ruin for this place.

Jeremiah 40:3

Now he has made it happen, accomplishing what he decreed; because you sinned against the Lord and did not listen to his voice, this decree has been realized against you.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the world’s inhabitants, That foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will let a few of them escape the sword, starvation, and plague, so that they may recount all their abominations among the nations to which they go. Thus they may know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:23

They shall console you when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that not without reason did I do to it everything I did—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 39:23

The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into exile because of its sins. Because they betrayed me, I hid my face from them, handing them over to their foes, so they all fell by the sword.

Ezekiel 5:15

And you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in angry wrath, with furious chastisements. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Daniel 9:7

Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel, near and far, in all the lands to which you have scattered them because of their treachery toward you.