Nehemiah 13:18

did not your fathers thus Cf. Jeremiah 17:22-23; Jeremiah 17:27, -but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers; but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.… But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched."

our God Note the change from - yourfathers" to - ourGod" and -upon us."

all this evil i.e. subjection to a foreign power.

ye bring more wrath upon Israel Cf. Ezra 10:10, -have married strange women, to increase the guilt of Israel."