💧WEB · Jeremiah 18:15

What does Jeremiah 18:15 mean?

"For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;"

— Jeremiah 18:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

13

Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14

Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will 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. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

16

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes thereby will be astonished, and shake his head.

17

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

18

Then they said, “Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

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