Jeremiah 9:10-13

10“I will take up a weeping and wailing for the 1mountains, And for the pastures of the 2wilderness a song of mourning, Because they are 3laid waste so that no one passes through, And the sound of the livestock is not heard; Both the 4birds of the sky and the animals have fled; they are gone.11I will make Jerusalem a 5heap of ruins, A haunt of 6jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a 7desolation without inhabitant.”

12Who is the 8wise person who may understand this? And who is he to whom 9the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? 10Why is the land destroyed, laid waste like the desert, so that no one passes through? 13The Lord said, “Because they have 11abandoned My Law which I put before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,