Jeremiah 9:12-14

Revised Geneva Translation

¹² Who is wise to understand this? And to whom the Mouth of the LORD has spoken, He shall declare it. Why does the land perish, burnt up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

¹³ And the LORD says, “Because they have forsaken My Law, which I set before them, and have not obeyed My Voice, or walked thereafter,

¹⁴ “but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after Baal, which their fathers taught them,”