Jeremiah 9:12-16
Christian Standard Bible
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) 15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood(E) and give them poisonous water to drink.(F) 16 I will scatter them among the nations(G) that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
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