²⁸ And ^(A)there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^(B)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

⁹ Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this ^(A)calamity on them.’ ”