Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. ¹¹Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: ⁱreturn ye now every one from his evil way, and ^kmake your ways and your doings good. ¹²And they said, ^lThere is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do ^mthe imagination of his evil heart. ¹³Therefore thus saith the Lord; ⁿAsk ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done ^oa very horrible thing. ¹⁴Will a man leave ^||the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place ^pbe forsaken? ¹⁵Because ^qmy people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to ^rvanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ^sancient ^tpaths, to walk in paths, in a way not ^ucast up; ¹⁶To make their land ^vdesolate, and a perpetual ^vhissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and ^wwag his head. ¹⁷I ^xwill scatter them as with ^yan east wind before the enemy; I will shew them ^zthe back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.