^{12 Ref} Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [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 none passes through?

^{13 Ref} Yahweh says, 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 Baals, which their fathers taught them;