Jeremiah 9:12-16
12Who is the awise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom bthe mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? cWhy has the land perished, turned into ruin like a desert, so that no one passes through? 13Yahweh said, “Because they have aforsaken My law, which I set before them, and have not listened to My voice nor walked according to it, 14but have awalked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the bBaals, as their cfathers taught them,” 15therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, aI will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them 1,bpoisoned water to drink. 16“I will ascatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the bsword after them until I have consumed them.”