¹² Who is wise^(A) enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

¹⁴ ‘I scattered^(A) them with a whirlwind^(B) among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.^(C) This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.^(D)’”

³⁸ Look, your house is left to you desolate.^(A)