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Jeremiah
Chapter
18
{Chapters
18-20 Sixth Oracle Sign of the Potters House}
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The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah/God, saying,
2
Arise, and go down to the potter's house,
and
there I will cause you to hear my words.
3
Then I went down to the potter's house,
and
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4
And the vessel that he made of clay
was
marred in the hand of the potter
so
he made it again another vessel,
as
seemed good to the potter to make it.
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Then the word of Jehovah/God came to me, saying, 6
O
house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
said
Jehovah/God.
Behold,
as the clay is in the potter's hand,
so
are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and
concerning a kingdom,
to
pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8
if
that nation, against whom I have pronounced,
turn
from their evil,
I
will repent of the 'divine discipline'/evil
that
I thought to do unto them.
9
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10
if
it do evil in My sight,
that
it obey not My voice,
then
I will repent of the 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, saying,
Thus
said Jehovah/God;
Behold,
I frame evil against you,
and
devise a device against you.
Return
you now every one from his evil way,
and
make your ways and your doings good.
12
And 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.
13
Therefore thus said Jehovah/God;
Ask
you now among the heathen,
who
has heard such things.
The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon
which
comes from the rock of the field?
Or
shall the cold flowing waters
that
come from another place be forsaken?
15
Because My people have forgotten Me,
they
have burned incense to vanity/emptiness {false gods},
and
they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from
the ancient paths,
to
walk in paths, in a way not cast up; 16
To
make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing;
every
one who passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17
I 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.
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Then 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 {run him down verbally},
and
let us not give heed to any of his words {negative volition}."
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Give heed to me, O Jehovah/God,
and
hearken to the voice of those who contend with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good?
For they have diug a pit for my soul.
Remember
that I stood before you to speak good for them,
and
to turn away your wrath from them.
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Therefore deliver up 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.
22
Let a cry be heard from their houses,
when
you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them
for
they have dug a pit to take me,
and
hid snares for my feet.
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Yet, Jehovah/God, you know all their counsel
against
me to slay me.
Forgive
not their iniquity,
neither
blot out their sin from your sight,
but
let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
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