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13 Listen to what the Lord says:

“Ask the other nations this question:
    ‘Have you ever heard of anything so bad?’
Israel, who is as dear to me as a young daughter,
    has done this terrible thing!
14 It is as strange as not finding snow on Lebanon’s mountains
    or seeing the cool streams that come from there stop flowing.
    That just does not happen!
15 But my people have forgotten me.
    They burn offerings to worthless idols.
They have left the right way that their ancestors followed,
    and they stumble on the path they have chosen.
Instead of staying on the good road I showed them,
    they prefer to walk on bumpy paths.

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13 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“Inquire among the nations:
    Who has ever heard anything like this?(A)
A most horrible(B) thing has been done
    by Virgin(C) Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon
    ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
    ever stop flowing?[a]
15 Yet my people have forgotten(D) me;
    they burn incense(E) to worthless idols,(F)
which made them stumble(G) in their ways,
    in the ancient paths.(H)
They made them walk in byways,
    on roads not built up.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.