Deuteronomy 29:24 - New Revised Standard Version they and indeed all the nations will wonder, “Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? American Standard Version (1901) even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Common English Bible Indeed, all nations will ask: Why did the LORD do this to this land? What led to this terrible display of anger? Catholic Public Domain Version And so, all the nations would say: 'Why has the Lord acted this way toward this land? What is this immense wrath of his fury?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? What meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath? |
They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their ancestors, and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.
But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny;
And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?”
It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster;
And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
They shall console you, when you see their ways and their deeds; and you shall know that it was not without cause that I did all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.
Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath, breaking the covenant;
I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.