Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 9:13

13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein▪

Either this, and the next verse refers to the former, viz. because there are none can give the reason why the land perisheth, therefore God will; or else they refer to the 15 and 16 verses as shewing the causes of those Judgments threatned, for either of the references do not alter the sense, see chap. 5.19. this verse contains negative Reasons.

He chargeth them with their Apostasie, and refusing to obey his precepts and conform their Conversation to them.

Lest they should plead they were obscure and hard to be understood, therefore he tells them, he had made it plain to them, they could not be ignorant of it except it were out of wilfulness and obstinacy; the like expression, Deut. 11.32.