10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation,because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them;nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle.Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled;they are gone.
11 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruinsand a den of jackals;and I will make the cities of Judah desolate,without an inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13 And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked in it,
14 but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.