12Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
13And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
— Jeremiah 9:12-14