Jeremiah

¹¹“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘the Lord says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’ ¹²But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” ¹³Therefore the Lord says:“Ask now among the nations,‘Who has heard such things?’The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. ¹⁴Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? ¹⁵For my people have forgotten me.They have burned incense to false gods.They have been made to stumble in their ways,in the ancient paths,to walk in byways, in a way not built up; ¹⁶to make their land an astonishment,and a perpetual hissing.Everyone who passes thereby will be astonished,and shake his head. ¹⁷I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy.I will show them the back, and not the face,in the day of their calamity.