⁹ People will answer,^(A) ‘Because they have forsaken^(B) the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster^(C) on them.’”

¹¹ All Israel has transgressed^(A) your law^(B) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses^(C) and sworn judgments^(D) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned^(E) against you. ¹² You have fulfilled^(F) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.^(G) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like^(H) what has been done to Jerusalem.^(I)