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.’ ”

^23 (A)Therefore look! The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has declared disaster against you.”

¹⁶ “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, ^(A)I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read—