Apparently evil doings and abominations (see verse 4) both refer to the corrupt religious practices of the people. In Good News Translation the expressions are placed together at the end of the verse and rendered “wicked and evil practices.”

A desolation: See verse 2 and 7.34 (Revised Standard Version “waste”).

A waste: See verse 12 (Revised Standard Version “horror”) and 2.15.

A curse: See verses 8, 12, and also 24.9; 25.18; 26.6; 29.22; 42.18; 49.13.

In translation it may be helpful in many languages to place the sequence of events in the order in which they happened:
(1) the people did many evil things;
(2) the LORD could no longer put up with what the people were doing;
(3) and so their land is now like a desert.

One way to render the verse is:

• The LORD could no longer stand the wicked and evil things you were doing. That is why your land is in ruins and no one lives there. That is why it is a horrifying sight whose name people use as a curse.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .