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Who is the wise person who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed, laid waste like the desert, so that no one passes through?

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

The LORD said, "Because they have abandoned My Law which I put before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, as their fathers taught them,"

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

therefore this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold, I will feed this people wormwood; and I will give them poisoned water to drink.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

"I will also scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have put an end to them."

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.