12. Who is the wise man that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken that he may declare for what cause the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness that no one passes through?
13. And the Lord said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,
14. but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them,
15. Therefore thus hath the Lord of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.
16. I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.