14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the crags of Sirion? Or are the cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up?
15 But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient ways, to go into bypaths, not one that is built up.
16 To 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.
17 Like the wind from the east I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.’ ”
18 Then they said, “Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from the priest, nor advice from the wise man, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us bring charges against him, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words.”
19 Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh, and listen to the voice of my opponents.
20 Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing before you to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.