15 Because my people hath forgotten me, and have burnt incense to vanity, and their prophets have caused them to stumble in their ways from the [a]ancient ways, to walk in the paths and way that is not trodden,

16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual derision, so that everyone that passeth thereby, shall be astonished and wag his head,

17 I will scatter them with an East wind before the enemy: I will show them the back, and [b]not the face in the day of their destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:15 That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, read Jer. 6:16.
  2. Jeremiah 18:17 I will show mine anger and not my favor toward them.

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