Jeremiah 16:10

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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?

Wherefore

Hosea 12:8

Bible References

Wherefore

Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.’
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

It shall come about when they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

“If you say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity

Your skirts have been removed

And your heels have been exposed.

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’

All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

And this house will become

a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me

No iniquity, which would be sin.”