“Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;”
The reason for judgment is explicitly stated: forsaking God and making the place alien, burning incense to other gods, and filling the place with innocent blood. The detailed catalog of sins establishes that Jerusalem's judgment is not arbitrary but proportionate to systematic rebellion. The burning of incense to other gods represents religious apostasy, while the shedding of innocent blood (likely including child sacrifice) represents moral depravity. The phrase making the place "alien" suggests that God no longer recognizes Jerusalem as the holy city but as a foreign, profane place.
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