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Jeremiah Chapter 18 - New American Standard Bible

1. THE word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,

2. «Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you.»

3. Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the [1] wheel.

4. But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

5. Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

6. «Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?» declares the LORD. «Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

7. «At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

8. if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will [2] relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.

9. «Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant it;

10. if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will [4] think better of the good with which I had promised to [3] bless it.

11. «So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, "Thus says the LORD, «Behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and [5] reform your ways and your deeds.»'

12. «But they will say, "It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

13. «Therefore thus says the LORD, " Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of [6] this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing.

14. "Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?

15. "For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense [10] to worthless gods And they [9] have stumbled [8] from their ways, [7] From the ancient paths, To walk in bypaths, Not on a highway,

16. To make their land a desolation, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

17. "Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will [11] show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.'»

18. Then they said, «Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.»

19. Do give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to [12] what my opponents are saying!

20. Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for [13] me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good on their behalf, So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

21. Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the [14] power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

22. May an outcry be heard from their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet.

23. Yet You, O LORD, know All their [17] deadly designs against me; Do not [16] forgive their iniquity Or blot out their sin from Your sight. But may they be [15] overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

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Footnotes
  • 1: I.e. your possessions
  • 2: Lit as My mouth
  • 3: Lit palm
  • 4: Or banqueting
  • 5: Lit cause to cease
  • 6: Lit there is nothing profitable in them
  • 7: Lit hand
  • 8: So ancient versions; M.T. your
  • 9: I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
  • 10: Lit arm
  • 11: Lit and is not inhabited
  • 12: Lit kidneys
  • 13: Lit fruit
  • 14: Lit his
  • 15: Lit away from Me
  • 16: Lit gate of the sons of the people
  • 17: Lit fathers

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