Jeremiah 9:9-16

9I will punish them for these things, declares the Lord. I will punish this nation. I still won’t be satisfied.

10I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

11I will turn Jerusalem into a pile of rubble, a home for jackals. I will destroy the cities of Judah so that no one can live there.

12No one is wise enough to understand this. To whom has the Lord revealed this so that they can explain it? The land dies; it has been ruined like the desert so that no one can travel through it.

13The Lord answered, “They’ve abandoned my teachings that I placed in front of them. They didn’t obey me, and they didn’t follow them.

14They followed their own stubborn ways and other gods—the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

15This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to feed these people bitterness and give them poison to drink.

16I will scatter them among nations that they and their ancestors haven’t heard of. I will send armies after them until I’ve wiped them out.