¹² Who is the person wise enough to understand this?^(A) Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?

¹³ The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned my instruction,^(B) which I set before them, and did not obey my voice or walk according to it. ¹⁴ Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts^(C) and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”^(D)