14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the open country alone?
Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever dried up?
15 For (A)My people have forgotten Me,
(B)They burn incense [a]to worthless gods.
And they [b]have stumbled in their ways,
In the (C)ancient roads,
To walk on paths,
Not on a (D)highway,
16 To make their land a (E)desolation,
An object of perpetual (F)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And (G)shake his head.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:15 Lit to worthlessness
  2. Jeremiah 18:15 As in ancient versions; MT caused them to

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