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Jeremiah 18:1 (show verse)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 18:2 (show verse)
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
Jeremiah 18:3 (show verse)
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he worked a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah 18:4 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 18:5 (show verse)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6 (show verse)
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:7 (show verse)
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Jeremiah 18:8 (show verse)
If that nation, against whom I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will change from the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah 18:9 (show verse)
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
Jeremiah 18:10 (show verse)
If it does evil in my sight, that it obeys not my voice, then I will change from the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
Jeremiah 18:11 (show verse)
Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am shaping evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
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Jeremiah 18:12 (show verse)
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.
Jeremiah 18:13 (show verse)
Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah 18:14 (show verse)
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Jeremiah 18:15 (show verse)
Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in pathways, and not on a highway;
Jeremiah 18:16 (show verse)
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Jeremiah 18:17 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 18:18 (show verse)
Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots 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 attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Jeremiah 18:19 (show verse)
Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of them that contend with me.
Jeremiah 18:20 (show verse)
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
Jeremiah 18:21 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 18:22 (show verse)
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Jeremiah 18:23 (show verse)
Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.