Jeremiah 5:19 records the people asking 'why' and receives the answer: they forsook God for foreign gods.

Jeremiah 16:10 has the people asking why the disaster came, revealing their persistent blindness to their sin.

In Deuteronomy 29:23-25, nations ask why God destroyed the land, and the answer is covenant abandonment—the same formula as here.

In 1 Kings 9:8, passersby ask why God destroyed the temple, matching the astonishment at Jerusalem's fall.

In 1 Kings 9:9, the answer—because they abandoned the Lord—directly parallels the reason for Jerusalem's destruction.

In 2 Chronicles 7:20-22, the identical pattern of passersby asking why and the answer of abandoning God reinforces this covenant curse.

In Lamentations 2:15-17, passersby mock Jerusalem and acknowledge God's purpose, fulfilling the prediction that nations would ask why.

Deuteronomy 29:24 records the identical question from passing nations, showing this judgment was warned in the covenant.

2 Chronicles 7:21 has the same astonished question about the temple, linking the destruction to Solomon's dedication prayer.

Ezekiel 14:23 explains that survivors' conduct will justify God's actions — directly answering the 'why' question from Jeremiah 22:8.

Ezekiel 23:30 gives the reason for judgment — prostitution with idols — which is the same cause implied by the question in Jeremiah 22:8.

Ezekiel 39:23 explicitly states that exile happened because of sin — providing the direct answer to the nations' question in Jeremiah 22:8.

Lamentations 1:18 confesses the LORD is righteous and rebellion brought the sorrow, providing the theological answer.

Ezekiel 5:8 declares God's judgment against Jerusalem in the sight of nations, the reason for the question in Jeremiah 22:8.

Ezekiel 12:16 adds that God spared a remnant to acknowledge their sins among the nations — connecting the question in Jeremiah 22:8 to the purpose of exile.