Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰However, if it does what is evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it. ⁿ¹¹So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: 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. ^o12But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. ^pWe 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 terrible thing. ^q

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. ^r

They burn incense to false idols

that make them stumble in their ways ^s

on the ancient roads ^t

and walk on new paths, not the highway.

¹⁶They have made their land a horror, ^u

a perpetual object of scorn; ^vw

everyone who passes by it will be horrified ^x

and shake his head. ^y

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

I will show them ^aMy back and not My face ^b

on the day of their calamity.