Jeremiah 16:10-15 - Abandoning The Lord And His Law

¹⁰ When you tell the people all these things, they will ask you: 'Why does Jehovah threaten us with all these disasters? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against Jehovah our God?' ¹¹ Tell them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' says Jehovah. They followed other gods, served them, worshiped them, and abandoned me. They did not obey my law. ¹² You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from listening (obeying) to me. ¹³ Therefore I will throw you out of this land into a land that you and your ancestors have not heard of. There you will serve other gods day and night because I will no longer have pity on you.'

¹⁴ That is why the days are coming, declares Jehovah, when people will no longer begin an oath with: 'Jehovah brought the people of Israel out of Egypt' and 'as Jehovah lives.' ¹⁵ But they will say: Jehovah brought the people of Israel out of the land of the north and all the lands where he had scattered them. They will say this because I will bring them back to the land that I gave their fathers.