Jeremiah 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Potter and the Clay

Jer 18:1The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,

Jer 18:2Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

Jer 18:3Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

Jer 18:4When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jer 18:5

Jer 18:5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jer 18:6

Jer 18:6House of Yisra'el, can't I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Yisra'el.

Jer 18:7

Jer 18:7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

Jer 18:8

Jer 18:8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Jer 18:9

Jer 18:9At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

Jer 18:10

Jer 18:10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

Jer 18:11

Jer 18:11Now therefore, speak to the men of Yehudah, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

Jer 18:12

Jer 18:12But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

Jer 18:13

Jer 18:13Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Yisra'el has done a very horrible thing.

Jer 18:14

Jer 18:14Shall the snow of Levanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

Jer 18:15

Jer 18:15For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

Jer 18:16

Jer 18:16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Jer 18:17

Jer 18:17I 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

Jer 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmeyahu; for the law shall not perish from the Kohen, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jer 18:19

Jer 18:19Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

Jer 18:20

Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Jer 18:21

Jer 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Jer 18:22

Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jer 18:23

Jer 18:23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah 18 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Potter and the Clay

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