Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it. ¹¹Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.’

¹²“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

¹³“Therefore thus says the Lord:

Ask among the nations,

who has heard the like of this?

The virgin Israel

has done a very horrible thing.

¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon leave

the crags of Sirion?^f

Do the mountain^g waters run dry,^h

the cold flowing streams?

¹⁵But my people have forgotten me,

they burn incense to false gods;

they have stumbled in their ways,

in the ancient roads,

and have gone into bypaths,

not the highway,

¹⁶making their land a horror,

a thing to be hissed at for ever.

Every one who passes by it is horrified

and shakes his head.

¹⁷Like the east wind I will scatter them

before the enemy.

I will show them my back, not my face,

in the day of their calamity.”