Jeremiah 9:11-13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² Who is the person wise enough to understand this?^(C) Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?

¹³ The Lord said, ‘It is because they abandoned my instruction,^(D) which I set before them, and did not obey my voice or walk according to it.