10. and it shall do evil in My eyes in not obeying My voice, then I shall repent concerning the good with which I spoke of doing to it.
11. “And now, speak to the men of Yehuḏah and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “See, I am forming evil and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.” ’ ”
12. But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”
13. Therefore thus said יהוה, “Ask now among the nations, who has heard the like of this? The maiden of Yisra’ĕl has done what is most horrible.
14. “Does the snow of Leḇanon cease from the rock of the field? Or the cool flowing waters from afar dry up?
15. “But My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to what is false, and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths and not on a highway,
16. to make their land become a ruin, a hissing forever – everyone who passes by it is appalled and shakes his head.
17. “I shall scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I shall show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity.”
18. Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”