| 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. |
| 18:19 | 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. |
| 18:23 | 耶和華阿、他們要殺我的那一切計謀、你都知道．不要赦免他們的罪孽、也不要從你面前塗抹他們的罪惡、要叫他們在你面前跌倒、願你發怒的時候罰辦他們。 |
| 18:23 | 耶和华阿，他们要杀我的那一切计谋，你都知道。不要赦免他们的罪孽，也不要从你面前涂抹他们的罪恶，要叫他们在你面前跌倒。愿你发怒的时候罚办他们。 |
| psm:35:4 | Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. |
| psm:109:14 | Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. |
| jer:11:20 | But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. |
| jer:15:15 | O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. |
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