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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’ |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger. |
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