Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.

¹¹And now, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I prepare evil against you, and devise a device against you: turn ye then every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings. ¹²But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart. ¹³Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things? The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. ¹⁴Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up? ¹⁵For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up; ¹⁶to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head. ¹⁷As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.