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! Let’s 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’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
19. Give heed to me, Lord,and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.