Jeremiah 18:12
“"Let each one turn back, then, from his evil way, and make your practices better." Sometimes the more simple-minded say: blessed were the men of old, because they heard the Lord through the prophet saying, "and the Lord spoke to them." And to us now the Lord speaks through the things that are written: "Let each one tu…”
Source: Septuagint
12And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
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10and they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
11And now say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.
— Jeremiah 18:12 —
13Therefore thus saith the Lord; Inquire now among the nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done?
14Will fertilizing streams fail to flow from a rock, or snow fail from Lebanon? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?