Jeremiah 18:12-14

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Israel’s Stubborn Idolatry

¹²But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord:
Ask among the nations:
    Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel has done
    a most horrible thing.
¹⁴Does the snow of Lebanon leave
    the crags of Sirion?^[a]
Do the mountain^[b] waters run dry,^[c]
    the cold flowing streams?

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 18:14 Cn: Heb of the field
Jeremiah 18:14 Cn: Heb foreign
Jeremiah 18:14 Cn: Heb Are . . . plucked up?

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