¹⁰ “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ^(A)‘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?’

¹¹ then you shall say to them: ^(A)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and ^(B)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,