Jeremiah 18 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

The Potter and the Clay

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

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

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

Jer 18:4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it 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 18:6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

Jer 18:7

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

Jer 18:8

Jer 18:8If that nation against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

Jer 18:9

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

Jer 18:10

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

Jer 18:11

Jer 18:11Now therefore come, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Jer 18:12

Jer 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

Jer 18:13

Jer 18:13Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

Jer 18:14

Jer 18:14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Jer 18:15

Jer 18:15Because 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;

Jer 18:16

Jer 18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag 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 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.

Jer 18:19

Jer 18:19Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

Jer 18:20

Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jer 18:21

Jer 18:21Therefore deliver 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.

Jer 18:22

Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jer 18:23

Jer 18:23Yet, 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 time of thy anger.

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The Potter and the Clay

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