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What man is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.

The Lord said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their fathers taught them."

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them."

Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them."

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them."