The warning about the house

6But if you or your sons turn away from following me, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them,

7then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out from before my face, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.

8And this house will become a ruin. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will whistle, and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’

9And they will say, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they held fast to other gods and bowed down to them and served them, therefore Yahweh brought all this disaster on them.’