“Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,”
Jeremiah 9:13 (WEB)
Context Reading
11“I will make Jerusalem heaps,a dwelling place of jackals.I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,without inhabitant.” 12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 13Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, 14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.” 15Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.