Jeremiah 9:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?

¹³ And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.