12 Who is [a]wise to understand this? and to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, even he shall declare it. Why doth the land perish, and is burnt up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

13 And the Lord saith, because they have forsaken my Law, which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked thereafter,

14 But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after Baal, which [b]their fathers taught them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:12 Meaning, that they are all without sense and understanding, and that God hath taken his spirit from them.
  2. Jeremiah 9:14 He showeth that the children cannot excuse themselves by their fathers: for both father and child if they be wicked shall perish.

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