10. I will weep and wail for the mountains,and lament for the grazing lands in the wilderness.They are dried up and deserted;no sound of the flocks is heard;no sign of birds or animals is seen;all have vanished.
11. I will reduce Jerusalem to ruins,a den for wild dogs.I will make the towns of Judah a wasteland, without inhabitant.
12. Who is wise enough to understand this?Who has been taught by the Lordand can therefore explain it?Why has the land been reduced to rubbleand laid waste like a desert,with no one passing through?
13. The Lord says: It is because they have abandoned my Instruction that I gave them, and haven’t obeyed or followed it.
14. Instead, they have followed their own willful hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.