Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

Bible References

Wherefore

Jeremiah 2:35
you claim, “I am innocent.
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”
Jeremiah 5:19
When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 13:22
And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.
Jeremiah 22:8
“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’
Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
1 Kings 9:8
Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?
Hosea 12:8
But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for!”

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