Jeremiah 18:10–17

¹⁰And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.

¹¹And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings. ¹²And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do. ¹³Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done. ¹⁴Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow? ¹⁵But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways—paths of old, To walk in paths—a way not raised up, ¹⁶To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head. ¹⁷As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.’