¹¹“So now then, say, please, to the people^g of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,^h ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Look, I am preparing evil against you, and I am planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly in your ways and your deeds.” ’ ¹²But 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.

¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the crags^j of Sirion?

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

¹⁵But 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.

¹⁶To 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.

¹⁷Like 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.’ ”

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Footnotes

gLiterally “man”
hLiterally “to say”
iLiterally “like these”
jHebrew “crag”
kHebrew “idol”
lLiterally “paths of way”
mLiterally “to the face of”