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Therefore, their land will become desolate, a monument to their stupidity. All who pass by will be astonished and will shake their heads in amazement.
16
They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and shake his head.
Jeremiah 18:16 In-Context
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Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?
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Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.
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Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
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Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.”
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They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
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S Deuteronomy 28:37; Jeremiah 25:9; Ezekiel 33:28-29