New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 18:11-15

11So now, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am 1forming a disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Now 2turn back, each of you from his evil way, and 3correct your ways and your deeds!”’ 12But 4they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will 5persist in the 6stubbornness of his evil heart.’

13“Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘7Just ask among the nations, Who ever heard anything like 8this? The 9virgin of Israel Has done a most 10appalling thing.14Does 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?15For 11My people have forgotten Me, 12They burn incense 13to worthless gods. And they 14have stumbled in their ways, In the 15ancient roads, To walk on paths, Not on a 16highway,

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1. Jeremiah 18:11 Is 5:5; Jer 4:6; 11:11 ↩
2. Jeremiah 18:11 2 Kin 17:13; Is 1:16-19; Jer 4:1; Acts 26:20 ↩
3. Jeremiah 18:11 Lit make good ↩
4. Jeremiah 18:12 Is 57:10; Jer 2:25 ↩
5. Jeremiah 18:12 Lit do the ↩
6. Jeremiah 18:12 Deut 29:19; Jer 7:24; 16:12 ↩
7. Jeremiah 18:13 Is 66:8; Jer 2:10, 11 ↩
8. Jeremiah 18:13 Lit these ↩
9. Jeremiah 18:13 Jer 14:17; 31:4 ↩
10. Jeremiah 18:13 Jer 5:30; 23:14; Hos 6:10 ↩
11. Jeremiah 18:15 Jer 2:32; 3:21 ↩
12. Jeremiah 18:15 Is 65:7; Jer 7:9; 10:15; 44:17 ↩
13. Jeremiah 18:15 Lit to worthlessness ↩
14. Jeremiah 18:15 As in ancient versions; MT caused them to ↩
15. Jeremiah 18:15 Jer 6:16 ↩
16. Jeremiah 18:15 Is 57:14; 62:10 ↩

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