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Jer.|18:1|-|The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
Jer.|18:2|-|Arise and go down to the |1|potter’s house, and there I will let you hear My words.
Jer.|18:3|-|So I went down to the potter’s house, and he was there doing work at his wheel.
Jer.|18:4|-|But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand; so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good for the potter to make.
Jer.|18:5|-|And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Jer.|18:6|-|Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does? declares Jehovah. Indeed, as the clay is in the hand of the |a|potter, so you are in My hand, O house of Israel.
Jer.|18:7|-|At the moment that I speak about a nation or about a kingdom, to pluck it up or to break it down or to destroy it,
Jer.|18:8|-|And if that nation concerning which I have spoken |a|turns from its evil, I will |b|repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.
Jer.|18:9|-|And at the moment that I speak about a nation or a kingdom, to build it up or to plant it,
Jer.|18:10|-|And if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit it.
Jer.|18:11|-||1|And now speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah, Look, I am forming evil against you and devising a plan against you. |a|Return now, each one of you from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.
Jer.|18:12|-|But they say, It is hopeless! For we will walk after our own devices and everyone will do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.
Jer.|18:13|-|Therefore thus says Jehovah,Ask now among the nations,
Who has heard such things?The |1a|virgin of Israel
Has done a very horrible thing.
Jer.|18:14|-|Does the snow of LebanonLeave the rock of the field?
Or will the cold flowing watersComing from afar be dried up?
Jer.|18:15|-|But My people have |a|forgotten Me;They burn incense to vanity,
And they have been stumbled in their waysFrom the |1|ancient paths
To walk on |1|bypaths,On a way which is not cast up,
Jer.|18:16|-||a|To make their land an astonishment,A thing to be hissed at forever.
Everyone who passes by will be astonishedAnd shake his head.
Jer.|18:17|-|Like the east wind I will scatter themBefore the enemy;
I will show them My |a|back and not My faceIn the day of their calamity.
Jer.|18:18|-|Then they said, Come, let us |a|devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law will not perish from the priest or counsel from the wise man or a word from the prophet. Come, 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 Jehovah,And listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
Jer.|18:20|-|Shall evil be recompensed with good?For they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before YouTo speak good for their sake,
To turn away Your wrath from them.
Jer.|18:21|-|Therefore |1|deliver up their children to famine,And give them over to the power of the sword;
And let their wives becomeBereaved of child and be widows;
And let their men be slaughtered to death,Their young men struck by the sword in battle.
Jer.|18:22|-|Let a cry be heard from their housesWhen You suddenly bring upon them a troop;
For they have dug a pit to capture meAnd have hidden snares for my feet.
Jer.|18:23|-|Yet You, O Jehovah, knowAll their counsel against me for my death.
Do not be propitious to their iniquity,And do not blot out their sin from before You;
But let them be overthrown before You;Deal with them in the time of Your anger.
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