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Israel’s Stubborn Idolatry

12 But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”

13 Therefore thus says the Lord:

Ask among the nations:

Who has heard the like of this?

The virgin Israel has done

a most horrible thing.

14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave

the crags of Sirion?a

Do the mountainb waters run dry,c

the cold flowing streams?

15 But my people have forgotten me,

they burn offerings to a delusion;

they have stumbledd in their ways,

in the ancient roads,

and have gone into bypaths,

not the highway,

16 making their land a horror,

a thing to be hissed at forever.

All who pass by it are horrified

and shake their heads.

17 Like the wind from the east,

I will scatter them before the enemy.

I will show them my back, not my face,

in the day of their calamity.

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