^{24 Ref} Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

^{25 Ref} Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:

^{26 Ref} And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them: