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11 The Lord says, “I will knock down all of Jerusalem’s buildings.
    I will make it a home for wild dogs.
The towns of Judah will be completely destroyed.
    No one will be able to live in them.”

12 Who is wise enough to understand these things? Who has been taught by the Lord? Who can explain them? Why has the land been destroyed so completely? Why has it become like a desert that no one can go across?

13 The Lord answered me, “Because my people have turned away from my law. I gave it to them. But they have not kept it. They have not obeyed me.

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