Jeremiah 9:12-15

12Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

13And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,

14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the 1God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,