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12 But they will say, “No use! We will follow our own devices; each one of us will behave according to the stubbornness of our evil hearts!”(A)

Unnatural Apostasy

13     Therefore thus says the Lord:
Ask among the nations—
    who has ever heard the like?
Truly horrible things
    virgin Israel has done!(B)
14 Does the snow of Lebanon[a]
    desert the rocky heights?
Do the gushing waters dry up
    that flow fresh down the mountains?

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Footnotes

  1. 18:14 Lebanon: here apparently including Mount Hermon, whose snow-capped peak can be seen from parts of Palestine all year round. The prophet contrasts the certainties of nature with Israel’s unnatural desertion of the Lord for idols (v. 15).