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.`
18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
19Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me.
20Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.
