Jeremiah 18:12-17

New King James Version

God’s Warning Rejected

¹²And they said, ^(A)“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one ^[a]obey the ^(B)dictates^[b] of his evil heart.”

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord:

^(C)“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done ^(D)a very horrible thing.
¹⁴Will a man ^[c]leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?

¹⁵“Because My people have forgotten ^(E)Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the ^(F)ancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
¹⁶To make their land ^(G)desolate and a perpetual ^(H)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
¹⁷^(I)I will scatter them ^(J)as with an east wind before the enemy;
^(K)I will ^[d]show them the back and not the face
In the day of their calamity.”