19 And when they ask, ‘Why has Jehovah our God done all these things to us?’ you should answer them, ‘Just as you abandoned me to serve a foreign god in your land, so you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”+

10 “When you tell this people all these words, they will ask you, ‘Why has Jehovah spoken of all this great calamity against us? What error and what sin have we committed against Jehovah our God?’+ 11 You must reply to them, ‘“Because your forefathers abandoned me,”+ declares Jehovah, “and they kept following other gods and serving them and bowing down to them.+ But me they abandoned, and my law they did not keep.+