12. But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
13. Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14. Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
15. For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
16. to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.