Jeremiah 9:12-16

Common English Bible

¹²Who is wise enough to understand this?
    Who has been taught by the Lord
    and can therefore explain it?
Why has the land been reduced to rubble
    and laid waste like a desert,
        with no one passing through?

¹³The Lord says: It is because they have abandoned my Instruction that I gave them, and haven’t obeyed or followed it. ¹⁴Instead, they have followed their own willful hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them. ¹⁵Therefore, this is what the Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, says: I’m going to feed this people bitter food and give them poison to drink. ¹⁶I will scatter them among nations about whom neither they nor their ancestors have ever heard. I will pursue them with the sword until all are gone.

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