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.