Jeremiah 18:15-17

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¹⁵ But my people have forgotten me.
    They burn incense to ·worthless [useless; meaningless] idols
and ·have stumbled [^Lthey make them stumble] in ·what they do [^Ltheir ways/paths]
    and in the ·old ways of their ancestors [^Lancient ways].
They walk along back roads
    ·and on poor [^Lways/paths that are not] highways.
¹⁶ So ·Judah’s country [^Ltheir land] will become an ·empty desert [wasteland; desolation].
    People will not stop ·making fun of [^Lhissing at] it.
They will shake their heads as they pass by;
    they will be shocked at how the country was destroyed.
¹⁷ Like a strong east wind,
    I will scatter them [^Cthe people of Judah] before their enemies.
·At that awful time [^LIn the day of their calamity] ·they will not see me coming to help them;
    they will see me leaving [^LI will show them my back and not my face].”