Jeremiah 2:35
2:35 you say, ‘I have not done anything wrong,
so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.’
But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you
because you say, ‘I have not committed any sin.’
Jeremiah 5:19
5:19 “So then, Jeremiah,
when your people
ask, ‘Why has the
Lord our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So
you must serve foreigners
in a land that does not belong to you.’
Jeremiah 13:22
13:22 You will probably ask yourself,
‘Why have these things happened to me?
Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress
whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’
It is because you have sinned so much.
Jeremiah 22:8-9
22:8 “‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another, “Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?”
22:9 The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”
Deuteronomy 29:24-25
29:24 Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the
Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger
all about?”
29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the
Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 29:1
Narrative Interlude
29:1 (28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 9:8-9
9:8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the
Lord made with you, I remained there
forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Hosea 12:8
12:8 Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich!
I have become wealthy!
In all that I have done to gain my wealth,
no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”