Jeremiah 18:12-17

¹²But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will persist in the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

13“Therefore this is what the Lord says:

‘Just ask among the nations,

Who ever heard anything like this?

The virgin of Israel

Has done a most appalling thing.

14‘Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the open country alone?

Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever dried up?

15‘For My people have forgotten Me,

They burn incense to worthless gods.

And they have stumbled in their ways,

In the ancient roads,

To walk on paths,

Not on a highway,

16To make their land a desolation,

An object of perpetual hissing;

Everyone who passes by it will be astonished

And shake his head.

17‘Like an east wind I will scatter them

Before the enemy;

I will show them My back and not My face

In the day of their disaster.’ ”