lesserot - Jeremiah:18:1-19:15

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:2 @ Arise, and go down to the potters house, and there will I let thee hear my words.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:3 @ Then went I down to the potters house, and, behold, he was doing work on the wheels.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel that he was making became spoiled as with the clay in the hand of the potter; and he made again thereof another vessel, as it seemed good in the eyes of the potter to make it.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then came the word of the Lord to me, saying,

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:6 @ Shall I not be able to do unto you as this potter, O house of Israel? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potters hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:7 @ At one instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:8 @ But should that nation, against whom I have spoken, return from their wrongdoing: then will I bethink me of the evil that I had thought to do unto them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And at one instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:10 @ But should it do what is evil in my eyes, so as not to hearken to my voice: then will I bethink me of the good, wherewith I had thought to benefit the same.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:11 @ And now do say to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as followeth, Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I form against you evil, and devise against you a device: do but return now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:12 @ And they said, It is useless: for after our own thoughts will we walk, and we will every one do after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Only ask among the nations, Who hath heard the like things? a very horrible act hath the virgin of Israel committed.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Doth the snow of Lebanon ever quit the rock of the field? or do the farcoming, cold, flowing waters ever fail?

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:15 @ That my people have forgotten me, that they have burnt incense to false gods, and are made to stumble on their ways, the ancient beaten tracks, to walk in paths, on a road which is not leveled?

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:16 @ To make their land desolate, a perpetual derision: every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:17 @ Like an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; with the back, and not the face, will I regard them on the day of their calamity.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:18 @ And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost 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 listen to any of his words.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Listen to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of those that contend with me.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Shall evil be recompensed instead of good, that they have dug a pit for my life? Remember my standing before thee to speak good concerning them, to cause thy wrath to turn away from them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore give up their children to the famine, and let their life ebb out by means of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain by death; their young men smitten by the sword in the battle.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:22 @ Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou bringest a troop over them suddenly; for they have dug a pit to catch me, and laid concealed snares for my feet.

lesserot@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet thou, Lord, knowest well all their counsel against me to death: forgive not their iniquity, and let their sin not be blotted out from before thee; but let them be brought to stumbling before thee; in the time of thy anger deal thus with them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus said the Lord, Go and buy a bottle from a maker of earthenware, and some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:2 @ And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Charsith, and proclaim there the words that I will speak unto thee.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:3 @ And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil over this place, so that the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:4 @ For the reason that they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burnt incense in it unto other gods, which they had not known, either they or their fathers, or the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:5 @ And they have built the highplaces of Baal, to burn their sons with fire as burntofferings unto Baal, which I had not commanded, nor spoken, and which had not come into my mind:

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called The Thopheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of slaughter.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those that seek their life: and I will give their carcasses as food unto the fowls of the heaven, and unto the beasts of the earth.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will render this city desolate, and an derision: every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:9 @ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his associate, in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and those that seek their life, shall distress them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:10 @ Then shalt thou break the bottle before the eyes of the men that are going with thee.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:11 @ And thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In this manner will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potters vessel, that cannot be restored again; and in Thopheth shall they bury, for want of room to bury.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to its inhabitants, and to make this city as Thopheth:

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are unclean, shall become as the place of the Thopheth, with all the houses upon the roofs of which they have burnt incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drinkofferings to other gods.

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then came Jeremiah from the Thopheth, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he placed himself in the court of the house of the Lord; and said to all the people,

lesserot@Jeremiah:19:15 @ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have spoken against it; because they have hardened their neck, so as not to hear my words.