Jeremiah 9:12-16

12 aWho is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined band laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 13And the Lord says: cBecause they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, 14but dhave stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. 15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: eBehold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them fpoisonous water to drink. 16 gI will scatter them among the nations hwhom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will isend the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

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