Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Bible References

Wherefore

Jeremiah 2:35
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.’
Jeremiah 13:22
“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.
Jeremiah 16:10
“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has the Lord declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the Lord our God?’
Jeremiah 22:8
“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’
Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
1 Kings 9:8
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?’
2 Chronicles 7:21
As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

Like as

Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.
Deuteronomy 4:25
“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us;
There is no one to deliver us from their hand.