10. I will weep for the mountainsand wail for the wilderness pastures.For they are desolate and empty of life;the lowing of cattle is heard no more;the birds and wild animals have all fled.
11. “I will make Jerusalem into a heap of ruins,” says the lord.“It will be a place haunted by jackals.The towns of Judah will be ghost towns,with no one living in them.”
12. Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the lord and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?
13. The lord replies, “This has happened because my people have abandoned my instructions; they have refused to obey what I said.