Jeremiah 9:12-14

Living Bible

¹² Who is wise enough to understand all this? Where is the Lord’s messenger to explain it? Why is the land a wilderness so that no one dares even to travel through?

¹³ “Because,” the Lord replies, “my people have forsaken my commandments and not obeyed my laws. ¹⁴ Instead, they have done whatever they pleased and worshiped the idols of Baal, as their fathers told them to.”