Jeremiah 9:12-16

Amplified Bible

¹² Who is the wise man who may understand this [without any doubt]? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? ¹³ The Lord said, “Because they have ^[a]turned away from My law which I set before them, and have not listened to and obeyed My voice nor walked in accordance with it, ¹⁴ but have walked stubbornly after their [own] heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” ¹⁵ therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink. ¹⁶ I will [also] scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”