¹² Who is the ^(A)wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom ^(B)the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? ^(C)Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

¹⁴ “but I ^[a](A)scattered them with a ^(B)storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is ^(C)desolated behind them ^[b]so that ^(D)no one went back and forth, for they ^(E)made the pleasant land desolate.”

³⁸ Behold, ^(A)your house is being left to you desolate!