Jeremiah 18 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2 Arise and go down to the potter’s house; there you will hear my word. “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
3 I went down to the potter’s house and there he was, working at the wheel. So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
4 Whenever the vessel of clay he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again, making another vessel of whatever sort he pleased. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: Then the word of the LORD came to me: Then the word of the LORD came to me.
6 Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done?—oracle of the LORD. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
7 At one moment I may decree concerning a nation or kingdom that I will uproot and tear down and destroy it; If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
8 but if that nation against whom I have decreed turns from its evil, then I will have a change of heart regarding the evil which I have decreed. and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
9 At another moment, I may decree concerning a nation or kingdom that I will build up and plant it; And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
10 but if that nation does what is evil in my eyes, refusing to obey my voice, then I will have a change of heart regarding the good with which I planned to bless it. and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11 And now, tell this to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the LORD: Look, I am fashioning evil against you and making a plan. Return, all of you, from your evil way; reform your ways and your deeds. Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’ “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’
12 But they will say, “No use! We will follow our own devices; each one of us will behave according to the stubbornness of our evil hearts!” “But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’”
13 Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done! “Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing. Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon desert the rocky heights? Do the gushing waters dry up that flow fresh down the mountains? Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams? Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?
15 Yet my people have forgotten me: they offer incense in vain. They stumble off their paths, the ways of old, Traveling on bypaths, not the beaten track. But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway, Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.
16 Their land shall be made a waste, an object of endless hissing: All passersby will be horrified, shaking their heads. making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head. Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
17 Like the east wind, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back, not my face, in their day of disaster. Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.” Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.”
18 “Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.” Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.” They said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
19 Pay attention to me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say. Hear me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. Listen to me, LORD; hear what my accusers are saying!
20 Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my life? Remember that I stood before you to speak on their behalf, to turn your wrath away from them. Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
21 So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.
22 May cries be heard from their homes, when suddenly you send plunderers against them. For they have dug a pit to capture me, they have hidden snares for my feet; May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
23 But you, LORD, know all their planning for my death. Do not forgive their crime, and their sin do not blot out from your sight! Let them stumble before you, in the time of your anger act against them. Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger. But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
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