Jeremiah 18 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

The Potter and the Clay

Jer 18:1The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Jer 18:2Rise, and thou hast gone down to the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;

Jer 18:3and I go down to the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones,

Jer 18:4and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

Jer 18:5

Jer 18:5And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying:

Jer 18:6

Jer 18:6As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

Jer 18:7

Jer 18:7The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

Jer 18:8

Jer 18:8And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it.

Jer 18:9

Jer 18:9And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant,

Jer 18:10

Jer 18:10And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.

Jer 18:11

Jer 18:11And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings.

Jer 18:12

Jer 18:12And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

Jer 18:13

Jer 18:13Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done.

Jer 18:14

Jer 18:14Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

Jer 18:15

Jer 18:15But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

Jer 18:16

Jer 18:16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

Jer 18:17

Jer 18:17As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

Jer 18:18

Jer 18:18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

Jer 18:19

Jer 18:19Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me.

Jer 18:20

Jer 18:20Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

Jer 18:21

Jer 18:21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

Jer 18:22

Jer 18:22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

Jer 18:23

Jer 18:23And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me is for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah 18 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

The Potter and the Clay

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