Jeremiah 9:11-15

11I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

12Who is the person wise enough to understand this? Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?

13The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned my instruction, which I set before them, and did not obey my voice or walk according to it.

14Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”

15Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.