⁸ And many nations will pass by this city, and all of them will say one to another, “Why has the Lord dealt in this way with that great city?”^(A)

⁹ And they will answer, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”^(A)

⁷ All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the true pasture, the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.”^(A)