12 Who is the (A)wise person who 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 destroyed, laid waste like the desert, so that no one passes through?

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12 Who is wise(A) 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?

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18 But (A)who has stood in the council of the Lord,
That he should see and hear His word?
Who has paid (B)attention to [a]His word and listened?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:18 Another reading is My

18 But which of them has stood in the council(A) of the Lord
    to see or to hear his word?
    Who has listened and heard his word?

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