Verse 12
Who is the wise man that may understand this ?.... Not the calamity, but the cause of it; a man of wisdom would inquire into it, find it out, and understand it; but the intimation is, that there was not a wise man among them, at least very few; there were scarce any that took any notice of these things, or were concerned about them:
and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken ; and foretold this desolation and destruction; meaning a prophet:
that he may declare it ; as from the Lord, namely, what follows:
for what the land perisheth, and is burnt like a wilderness, that none passeth through ? that is, what were the sins of the inhabitants of the land, which brought such distress upon it, and for which it became such a ruinous heap, and like the heath in the wilderness, so that it had no inhabitant, nor even a passenger: they must be some very great and abominable iniquities that were the cause of all this.
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