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Jeremiah 18

18 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 2 “Arise and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will cause you to hear my words.” 3 And I went down to the house of the potter, and behold, he was doing work on the wheels.

4 And the vessel that he was making with the clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, and he returned and made it into another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

5 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 6 “Like this potter, am I not able to do to you, house of Israel?”—the declaration of Yahweh—“Behold, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 7 If at any moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot and to tear down and to destroy it, 8 and if that nation turns from its evil, which I have spoken against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it. 9 And if at any moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 And if it does the evil in my eyes, not listening to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said to do good to it.

11 And now, please say to the men of Judah and to the dwellers of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Behold, I am forming evil against you and devising a plan against you. Please turn back, each man from his evil way, and make good your ways and your deeds.” ’ ” 12 But they will say, “It is hopeless, for we will walk after our own plans, and each man, the stubbornness of his evil heart, we will do.”

13 Therefore, thus says Yahweh: “Please ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the field? Or are foreign, cold, flowing waters removed?

15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthlessness, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, the paths of old, to walk on paths, a way not being built up,

16 to make their land a desolation, a hissing of eternity. Everyone passing over it will be appalled and will shake his head.

17 Like a wind of the east I will scatter them to the face of the enemy. The neck and not the face I will show them on the day of their calamity.”

18 And they said, “Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah, for the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

19 Pay attention to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of my opponents.

20 Should evil be repaid in place of good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember my standing to your face to speak good concerning them, to turn back your wrath from them.

21 Therefore, give their sons to the famine, and deliver them over to the hands of the sword. And let their wives become bereaved of children and widows, and let their men become those killed of death, and their young men struck of the sword in the battle.

22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a raiding band against them suddenly, for they have dug a pit to capture me, and they have hidden traps for my feet.

23 But you, Yahweh, you know all of their counsel against me for death. Do not atone for their iniquity, and do not blot out their sin from before your face; but let them be overthrown to your face. In the time of your nose, deal with them.