13 The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned my instruction,g which I set before them, and did not obey my voice or walk according to it. 14 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their heartsh and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”i 15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwoodj and give them poisonous water to drink.k 16 I will scatter them among the nationsl that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”