Jeremiah 13:22

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²²And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”^(A)—
it is because of your many sins^(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off^(C)
    and your body mistreated.^(D)

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Jeremiah 13:22 in all English translations

Jeremiah 16:10-11

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¹⁰“When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’^(A) ¹¹then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped^(B) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.^(C)

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Jeremiah 22:8-9

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⁸“People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?’^(A) ⁹And the answer will be: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.^(B)’”

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Deuteronomy 29:24-25

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²⁴All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(A) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

²⁵And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.^(B)

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1 Kings 9:8-9

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⁸This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[a] who pass by will be appalled^(A) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’^(B) ⁹People will answer,^(C) ‘Because they have forsaken^(D) the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster^(E) on them.’”