Leaving the ancient path

14Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the open country? Or are cold, flowing foreign waters ever uprooted?

15For my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to emptiness. They have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk on side roads, on a road not built up.

16making their land a desolation, an object of perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and shake his head.

17Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy; I will show them the back and not the face in the day of their disaster.