Jeremiah:18:1-19
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The word which came to Jeremiah from LORD ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
and go down to the potter '
s house ,
and there I will cause thee to hear my words .
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Then I went down to the potter '
s house ,
and ,
behold ,
he was making a work on the wheels .
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And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter ,
he made it another vessel again ,
as seemed good to the potter to make it .
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Then the word of LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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O house of Israel ,
cannot I do with you as this potter ?
says LORD .
Behold ,
as the clay in the potter '
s hand ,
so are ye in my hand ,
O house of Israel .
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At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it ,
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if that nation ,
concerning which I have spoken ,
turns from their evil ,
I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them .
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And at that instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to build and to plant it ,
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if they do that which is evil in my sight ,
that they obey not my voice ,
then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them .
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Now therefore ,
speak to the men of Judah ,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
saying ,
Thus says LORD :
Behold ,
I frame evil against you ,
and devise a device against you .
Return ye now everyone from his evil way ,
and amend your ways
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But they say ,
It is in vain .
For we will walk after our own devices ,
and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart .
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Therefore thus says LORD :
Ask ye now among the nations ,
Who has heard such things ?
The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing .
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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 ?
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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 ,
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to make their land an astonishment ,
and a perpetual hissing ,
everyone who passes by it shall be astonished ,
and shake his head .
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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 .
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Then they said ,
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 gi
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Give heed to me ,
O LORD ,
and hearken to the voice of those who contend with me .