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?

¹⁴ “but I ^[a](A)scattered them with a ^(B)storm wind among all the nations whom they did not know. So the land was ^(C)desolated behind them ^[b]so that ^(D)no one went back and forth, since they ^(E)made the pleasant land desolate.”

³⁸ Behold, ^(A)your house is being left to you desolate!