And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? After the execution of the sentence pronounced, it is the Gentile nations who ask, "Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land?" (Deuteronomy 29:24; 1 Kings 9:8-9.)