25 Then they will have to say, ‘It was because they abandoned the covenant+ of Jehovah the God of their forefathers, which he concluded with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.+

9 And they will have to say, ‘For the reason that they left Jehovah their God who had brought their forefathers out from the land of Egypt,+ and they proceeded to take hold of other gods+ and bow down to them and serve them. That is why Jehovah brought upon them all this calamity.’”+

35 “But you say, ‘I have remained innocent. Surely his anger has turned back from me.’+

“Here I am entering into controversy with you on account of your saying, ‘I have not sinned.’+

22 And when you will say in your heart,+ ‘Why is it that these things have befallen me?’+ because of the abundance of your error your skirts have been taken off as a cover;+ your heels have been treated violently.

10 “And it must occur that, when you tell to this people all these words and they actually say to you, ‘On what account has Jehovah spoken against us all this great calamity, and what is our error and what is our sin with which we have sinned against Jehovah our God?’+