Jeremiah 18:11–17
11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. fReturn now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings ggood.” ’ ”
12 And they said, h“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one 4obey the idictates 5of his evil heart.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord:
j“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done ka very horrible thing.
14 Will a man 6leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?
15 “Because My people have forgotten lMe,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the mancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
16 To make their land ndesolate and a perpetual ohissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
17 pI will scatter them qas with an east wind before the enemy;
rI will 7show them the back and not the face
In the day of their calamity.”