Jeremiah 18:12-17

English Standard Version

¹³ “Therefore thus says the Lord:
^(C)Ask among the nations,
    Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
    has done ^(D)a very horrible thing.
¹⁴ Does the snow of Lebanon leave
    the crags of Sirion?^[a]
Do the mountain waters run dry,^[b]
    the cold flowing streams?
^15 (E)But my people have forgotten me;
    they make offerings to ^(F)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
    ^(G)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
    ^(H)not the highway,
¹⁶ making their land ^(I)a horror,
    a thing ^(J)to be hissed at forever.
^(K)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
    ^(L)and shakes his head.
^17 (M)Like the east wind ^(N)I will scatter them
    before the enemy.
^(O)I will show them my back, not my face,
    in the day of their calamity.”