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Chapter 18.

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The word which came to Jeremiah from the
Lord, saying, Arise and go down to the

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potter's house, and there I will cause
thee to hear my words.

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Then I went down to the potter's house,
and behold, he wrought a work on the

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wheels, and the vessel that he made of
clay was marred in the hand of the potter.

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So he made it again, another vessel,
as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Then the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, O house of Israel, can I not do

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with you as this potter?

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Saith the Lord, behold, as the clay is in
the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand,

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O house of Israel.

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At what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation and concerning a kingdom,

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to pluck up and to pull down and to
destroy it.

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If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil,

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I will repent of the evil that I thought
to do unto them.

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And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation and concerning a

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kingdom, to build and to plant it.

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If it do evil in my sight, that it obey
not my voice, then I will repent of the

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good wherewith I said I would benefit
them.

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Now therefore go to, speak to the men of
Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

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saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold,
I frame evil against you and devise a

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device against you.

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Return ye now every one from his evil way
and make your ways and your doings good.

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And they said, There is no hope,
but we will walk after our own devices and

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we will every one do the imagination of
his evil heart.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord.

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Ask ye now among the heathen, Who hath
heard such things?

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The virgin of Israel hath done a very
horrible thing.

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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon,
which cometh from the rock of the field?

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Or shall the cold flowing waters that come
from another place be forsaken?

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Because my people hath forgotten me.

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They have burned incense to vanity and
they have caused them to stumble in their

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ways from the ancient paths, to walk in
paths in a way not cast up.

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To make their land desolate and a
perpetual hissing, every one that passeth

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thereby shall be astonished and wag his
head.

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I will scatter them as with an east wind
before the enemy.

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I will show them the back and not the face
in the day of their calamity.

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Then said they, Come and let us devise
devices against Jeremiah.

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For the law shall not perish from the
priest nor counsel from the wise nor the

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word from the prophet.

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Come and let us smite him with the tongue
and let us not give heed to any of his

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words.

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Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to
the voice of them that contend with me.

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Shall evil be recompensed for good?

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For they have digged a pit for my soul.

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Remember that I stood before thee to speak
good for them and to turn away thy wrath

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from them.

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Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine and pour out their blood by the

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force of the sword and let their wives be
bereaved of their children and be widows

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and let their men be put to death.

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Let their young men be slain by the sword
in battle.

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Let a cry be heard from their houses when
thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon

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them.

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For they have digged a pit to take me and
hid snares for my feet.

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Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay me.

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Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot
out their sin from thy sight, but let them

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be overthrown before thee.

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Deal thus with them in the time of thine
anger.