Jeremiah 9:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

¹⁴ But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.