Judg 2:12-13, Jer 1:16, Lam 2:16-17, 4:13-15, Eze 14:23, 36:17-20 | ESV | STEP | And they abandoned the Lord , the God of their fathers , who had brought them out of the land of Egypt . They went after other gods , from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.

Judges 2:12-13

12 ^aAnd they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^bThey went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ^cbowed down to them. ^dAnd they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord ^eand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.

Jeremiah 1:16

16 And ^fI will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil ^gin forsaking me. ^hThey have made offerings to other gods and ⁱworshiped the works of their own hands.

Lamentations 2:16-17

16 ^jAll your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We ^khave swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; ^lwe see it!”
17 The Lord has done what he purposed;
he has carried out ^mhis word,
which he commanded ⁿlong ago;
^ohe has thrown down ^pwithout pity;
^qhe has made the enemy rejoice over you
and exalted the ^rmight of your foes.

Lamentations 4:13-15

13 This was for ^sthe sins of her prophets
and ^tthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
14 ^uThey wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
^vthat no one was able to touch
their garments.
15 “Away! ^wUnclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”

Ezekiel 14:23

23 They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 36:17-20

17 ^x“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, ^ythey defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were ^zlike the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. 18 So ^aaI poured out my wrath upon them ^abfor the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols ^acwith which they had defiled it. 19 ^adI scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. ^aeIn accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. 20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^afthey profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’