10. but if it should do evil in my sight, not hearing my voice, then I will repent of the good that I had determined to do unto them.
11. Now therefore, speak to every man of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus hath the Lord said: Behold, I ordain evil against you and devise plans against you; return ye now each one from his evil way, and better your ways and your doings.
12. And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13. Therefore thus hath the Lord said; Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
14. Will anyone leave the snow of the rock of the field that flows from Lebanon? or shall they forsake the singular, cold, flowing waters?
15. Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not trodden;
16. to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.
17. I 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 perdition.