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JER-18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
JER-18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I
will cause
thee to hear my words.
JER-18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold,
he wrought a
work on the wheels.
JER-18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the
hand of the
potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to
the potter to
make [it].
JER-18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
JER-18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith the
LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye
in mine hand,
O house of Israel.
JER-18:7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning
a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it];
JER-18:8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn
from their
evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
JER-18:9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];
JER-18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice,
then I will
repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
JER-18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and
to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
frame evil
against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now
every one from his
evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
JER-18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk
after our own
devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil
heart.
JER-18:13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the
heathen, who
hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very
horrible thing.
JER-18:14 Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh]
from the rock
of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from
another place
be forsaken?
JER-18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned
incense to
vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways
[from] the ancient
paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
JER-18:16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual
hissing; every one
that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
JER-18:17 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.
JER-18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices
against Jeremiah;
for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from
the wise, nor
the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the
tongue, and let
us not give heed to any of his words.
JER-18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of
them that
contend with me.
JER-18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have
digged a pit for
my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for
them, [and] to
turn away thy wrath from them.
JER-18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
and pour out
their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be
bereaved of
their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to
death; [let]
their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.
JER-18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt
bring a troop
suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and
hid snares for
my feet.
JER-18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me
to slay [me]:
forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy
sight, but let
them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the
time of thine
anger.
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