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12 Who is the wise man that can understand this?
    And to whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, so that he may declare it?
Why is the land destroyed?
    It is laid waste like the desert[a] so that no one passes through.”

The Nation is Judged by Yahweh

13 And Yahweh said, “Because of their forsaking my law that I set before[b] them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it, 14 but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors[c] taught them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:12 Or “wilderness”
  2. Jeremiah 9:13 Literally “to the face of”
  3. Jeremiah 9:14 Or “fathers”