18:1 The
word
which
came
to
Jeremiah
from
Jehovah,
saying,
18:2 Arise,
and
go
down
to
the
potter's
house,
and
there
I
will
cause
thee
to
hear
my
words.
18:3 Then
I
went
down
to
the
potter's
house,
and,
behold,
he
was
making
a
work
on
the
wheels.
18:4 And
when
the
vessel
that
he
made
of
the
clay
was
marred
in
the
hand
of
the
potter,
he
made
it
again
another
vessel,
as
seemed
good
to
the
potter
to
make
it.
18:5 Then
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
me,
saying,
18:6 O
house
of
Israel,
cannot
I
do
with
you
as
this
potter
saith
Jehovah.
Behold,
as
the
clay
in
the
potter's
hand,
so
are
ye
in
my
hand,
O
house
of
Israel.
18:7 At
what
instant
I
shall
speak
concerning
a
nation,
and
concerning
a
kingdom,
to
pluck
up
and
to
break
down
and
to
destroy
it;
18:8 if
that
nation,
concerning
which
I
have
spoken,
turn
from
their
evil,
I
will
repent
of
the
evil
that
I
thought
to
do
unto
them.
18:9 And
at
what
instant
I
shall
speak
concerning
a
nation,
and
concerning
a
kingdom,
to
build
and
to
plant
it;
18:10 if
they
do
that
which
is
evil
in
my
sight,
that
they
obey
not
my
voice,
then
I
will
repent
of
the
good,
wherewith
I
said
I
would
benefit
them.
18:11 Now
therefore,
speak
to
the
men
of
Judah,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
saying,
Thus
saith
Jehovah:
Behold,
I
frame
evil
against
you,
and
devise
a
device
against
you:
return
ye
now
every
one
from
his
evil
way,
and
amend
your
ways
and
your
doings.
18:12 But
they
say,
It
is
in
vain;
for
we
will
walk
after
our
own
devices,
and
we
will
do
every
one
after
the
stubbornness
of
his
evil
heart.
18:13 Therefore
thus
saith
Jehovah:
Ask
ye
now
among
the
nations,
who
hath
heard
such
things;
the
virgin
of
Israel
hath
done
a
very
horrible
thing.
18:14 Shall
the
snow
of
Lebanon
fail
from
the
rock
of
the
field
[or]
shall
the
cold
waters
that
flow
down
from
afar
be
dried
up
18:15 For
my
people
have
forgotten
me,
they
have
burned
incense
to
false
[gods];
and
they
have
been
made
to
stumble
in
their
ways,
in
the
ancient
paths,
to
walk
in
bypaths,
in
a
way
not
cast
up;
18:16 to
make
their
land
an
astonishment,
and
a
perpetual
hissing;
every
one
that
passeth
thereby
shall
be
astonished,
and
shake
his
head.
18:17 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.
18:18 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.
18:19 Give
heed
to
me,
O
Jehovah,
and
hearken
to
the
voice
of
them
that
contend
with
me.
18:20 Shall
evil
be
recompensed
for
good
for
they
have
digged
a
pit
for
my
soul.
Remember
how
I
stood
before
thee
to
speak
good
for
them,
to
turn
away
thy
wrath
from
them.
18:21 Therefore
deliver
up
their
children
to
the
famine,
and
give
them
over
to
the
power
of
the
sword;
and
let
their
wives
become
childless,
and
widows;
and
let
their
men
be
slain
of
death,
[and]
their
young
men
smitten
of
the
sword
in
battle.
18:22 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.
18:23 Yet,
Jehovah,
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
thou
with
them
in
the
time
of
thine
anger.
