Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess? 14Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? 15Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: 16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head. 17As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.