| 18:1 | The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, 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 wrought a work on the wheels. |
| 18:4 | 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. |
| 18:5 | Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 18:6 | O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine 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 pull down, and to destroy it; |
| 18:8 | 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 18:11 | Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; 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. |
| 18:12 | 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. |
| 18:13 | Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. |
| 18:14 | 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? |
| 18:15 | 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; |
| 18:16 | To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. |
| 18:17 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 18:18 | 他們就說、來罷．我們可以設計謀害耶利米、因為我們有祭司講律法、智慧人設謀略、先知說豫言、都不能斷絕．來罷、我們可以用舌頭擊打他、不要理會他的一切話。 |
| 18:18 | 他们就说，来吧。我们可以设计谋害耶利米。因为我们有祭司讲律法，智慧人设谋略，先知说预言，都不能断绝。来吧。我们可以用舌头击打他，不要理会他的一切话。 |
| jer:11:19 | But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. |
| lev:10:11 | And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. |
| mal:2:7 | For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. |
| jhn:7:48 | Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? |
| jhn:7:49 | But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. |
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| 18:19 | Give heed to me, O LORD, 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 that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. |
| 18:21 | 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. |
| 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, LORD, 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. |
