“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)
16 Their land will be an object of horror^(J)
    and of lasting scorn;^(K)
all who pass by will be appalled^(L)
    and will shake their heads.^(M)
17 Like a wind^(N) from the east,
    I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face^(O)
    in the day of their disaster.”