^{24 Ref} even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

^{25 Ref} Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

^{26 Ref} and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: