24. And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
25. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume: