²⁵ Then men will say, ‘^(A)Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not apportioned to them. ²⁷ Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, ^(B)to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book; ²⁸ and ^(C)Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’