Jeremiah Chapter 18
18:1 | The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
18:2 | Arise, and go down to the potter' ![]() |
18:3 | Then I went down to the potter' ![]() |
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]. |
18:5 | Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
18:6 | O ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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]; |
18:8 | If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their ![]() ![]() ![]() |
18:9 | And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it]; |
18:10 | If it ![]() ![]() |
18:11 | Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
18:12 | And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one ![]() ![]() |
18:13 | Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the ![]() ![]() |
18:14 | Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold flowing ![]() |
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; |
18:16 | To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. |
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 ![]() |
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. |
18:19 | Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. |
18:20 | Shall ![]() |
18:21 | Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
18:22 | Let a cry be heard from their ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |