^{12 Ref} 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?

^{13 Ref} And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

^{14 Ref} but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;