Jeremiah 9:11-13

Complete Jewish Bible

^11 (12) Who is wise enough to understand this?
To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken,
so that he can proclaim it?
Why has the land perished
and been laid waste like a desert,
so that no one passes through?

^12 (13) Adonai answers:

“Because they abandoned my Torah,
which I set before them,
and neither listened to what I said
nor lived accordingly,
^13 (14) but have lived by their own hearts’ stubbornness
and by the ba‘alim, as their ancestors taught them —