11And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings.
12And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.
13Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done.
14Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?
15But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,
16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
17As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.`
