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Jeremiah 9:12

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10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.Select Jeremiah 9:10

11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.Select Jeremiah 9:11

12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?Select Jeremiah 9:12

13And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;Select Jeremiah 9:13

14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:Select Jeremiah 9:14

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9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

ASV

9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

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