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The word which came to Jeremiah from the L
ORD
, saying,
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Arise, and go down to the 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 wheels.
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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 the L
ORD
came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith the L
ORD
. Behold, as the clay
is
in the potter’s hand, so
are
ye in mine 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;
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If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, 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 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 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 saith the L
ORD
; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: 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 we will every one do the imagination
of his evil heart.
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Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard
such things: 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?
or
shall the cold flowing waters that come from
another place be forsaken?
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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to
vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their 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
thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the
enemy; I will shew 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, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Give heed to me, O L
ORD
, and
hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they
have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them,
and
to
turn away thy 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.
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Let
a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have
digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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Yet, L
ORD
, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay
me:
forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let
them be overthrown before thee; deal
thus
with them in the time of thine anger.
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