12 ⁱWho is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined ^jand laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 13 And the Lord says: ^k“Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, 14 but ^lhave stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^mBehold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them ⁿpoisonous water to drink. 16 ^oI will scatter them among the nations ^pwhom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will ^qsend the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”