¹⁰However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.^b ¹¹So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.’^c ¹²But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless.^d We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

DELUDED ISRAEL

¹³Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

Ask among the nations,

who has heard things like these?

Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.^e

¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?

Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?

¹⁵Yet my people have forgotten me.^f

They burn incense to worthless idols

that make them stumble in their ways^g

on the ancient roads,^h

and make them walk on new paths, not the highway.

¹⁶They have made their land a horror,ⁱ

a perpetual object of scorn;^A^j

all who pass by it will be appalled^k

and shake their heads.^l

¹⁷I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.^m

I will show them^B my back and not my faceⁿ

on the day of their calamity.

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Footnotes

A hissing
B, , , ; reads will look at them

Cross references

b Ezk 18:25–29; 33:12–13
c Jr 4:18; 7:3; 35:15
d Is 57:12; Jr 2:25
e Jr 5:30; Hs 6:10
f Jr 2:32; 3:21; 13:25; Ezk 22:12; 23:35; Hs 8:14
g Ezk 14:3,4,7; 44:12; Rv 2:14
h Jr 6:16
i Dt 28:37; 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jr 5:30; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22; 50:13; Mc 6:16; Zph 2:15
j Lm 2:15
k Jr 19:8; 49:17
l Jb 2:11; 42:11; Ps 22:7; 69:20; Is 51:19; Jr 15:5; 48:27; Nah 3:7
m Ex 10:13; 14:21; Jb 27:21; 38:24; Ps 48:7; Is 27:8; Jr 13:24
n 2Ch 29:6; Jr 2:27; 32:33; Ezk 8:16