Jeremiah 5:19
And when the people ask, 'For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' You are to tell them, 'Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.'
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Wherefore.

Jeremiah 2:35
you say, 'I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.' But I will certainly judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

Jeremiah 13:22
And if you ask yourself, "Why has this happened to me?" it is because of the magnitude of your iniquity. Your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.

Jeremiah 16:10
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

Jeremiah 22:8, 9
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?' . . .

Deuteronomy 29:24-28
All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?' . . .

1 Kings 9:8, 9
And this temple will now become a heap of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?' . . .

2 Chronicles 7:21, 22
And this temple will now become a heap of rubble. All who pass it by will be appalled and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?' . . .

like as.

Jeremiah 2:13
"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Deuteronomy 4:25-28
After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol in the form of anything, doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger, . . .

Deuteronomy 28:47, 48
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, . . .

Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

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New American Standard Bible
"It shall come about when they say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

King James Bible
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When people ask, 'For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

International Standard Version
When the people ask, 'Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you are to say to them, 'Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"

NET Bible
"So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, 'Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' tell them, 'It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.'
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