10. Upon the mountains I will lift up weeping and wailing and lamentation upon the habitations of the wilderness because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and even the beasts of the earth are fled; they are gone.
11. And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12. Who is the wise man that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken that he may declare for what cause the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness that no one passes through?
13. And the Lord said, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not heard my voice, neither walked therein,
14. but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them,
15. Therefore thus hath the Lord of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.
16. I will scatter them also among Gentiles whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.
17. Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,
18. and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.