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Jeremiah 18:15

Verse 15 of 23. The 18th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

11“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’

12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

13Therefore the LORD says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

17I 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 calamity.

18Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

19Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.