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.”
19. Attend to me, O יהוה, and listen to the voice of my adversaries!
20. Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, and to turn away Your wrath from them.
21. So give their children over to scarcity of food, and hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become widows and bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle.