24. Then all the other nations in the world will ask, “Why has the Lord done this to their land? Why is he so angry?”
25. The answer will be, “Because they abandoned the promise of the Lord God of their ancestors. He made this promise to them when he brought them out of Egypt.
26. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them. These were gods they never heard of, gods the Lord didn’t permit them to have.