18:1 The
word
that
came
to
Jeremiah
from
the
LORD:
18:2 "Arise,
and
go
down
to
the
potter's
house,
and
there
I
will
let
you
hear
my
words."
18:3 So
I
went
down
to
the
potter's
house,
and
there
he
was
working
at
his
wheel.
18:4 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.
18:5 Then
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
me:
18:6 "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.
18:7 If
at
any
time
I
declare
concerning
a
nation
or
a
kingdom,
that
I
will
pluck
up
and
break
down
and
destroy
it,
18:8 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.
18:9 And
if
at
any
time
I
declare
concerning
a
nation
or
a
kingdom
that
I
will
build
and
plant
it,
18:10 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.
18:11 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.'
18:12 "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.'
18:13 "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.
18:14 Does
the
snow
of
Lebanon
leave
the
crags
of
Sirion
Do
the
mountain
waters
run
dry,
the
cold
flowing
streams
18:15 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,
18:16 making
their
land
a
horror,
a
thing
to
be
hissed
at
forever.
Everyone
who
passes
by
it
is
horrified
and
shakes
his
head.
18:17 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."
18:18 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."
18:19 Hear
me,
O
LORD,
and
listen
to
the
voice
of
my
adversaries.
18:20 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.
18:21 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.
18:22 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.
18:23 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.