12 But they will say, ‘It is hopeless, for we will go after our own plans, and each one of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

13 “Therefore thus says Yahweh,

‘Please ask among the nations, “Who has heard ⌊the like of this⌋?”i

The virgin of Israel has done something very horrible.

14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the cragsj of Sirion?

Or are the cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up?

15 But my people have forgotten me.

They make smoke offerings to the idols,k

and they caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient ways,

to go into ⌊bypaths⌋,l not one that is built up.

16 To make their land a horror,

an object of whistling for eternity.

All who pass by it will be appalled,

and he will shake his head.

17 Like the wind from the east

I will scatter them ⌊before⌋m the enemy.

I will show them my back and not my face

in the day of their disaster.’ ”