Jeremiah:18:1-19

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* The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah , saying , * Arise and go down to the potter 's house , and there I will cause thee to hear my words . * And I went down to the potter 's house ; and behold , he wrought a work on the wheels . * And the vessel that he made was marred , as clay , in the hand of the potter ; and he made it again another vessel , as seemed good to the potter to make . * And the word of Jehovah came to me , saying , * House of Israel , cannot I do with you as this potter ? saith Jehovah . Behold , as the clay in the potter 's hand , so are ye in my hand , house of Israel . * At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom , to pluck up , and to break down , and to destroy , * if that nation , concerning which I have spoken , turn from their evil , then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them . * And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom , to build and to plant , * if it do evil in my sight , that it hearken not unto my voice , then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them . * And now , speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem , saying , Thus saith Jehovah : Behold , I prepare evil against you , and devise a device against you : turn ye then every one from his evil way , and amend your ways and your doings . * But they say , There is no hope ; for we will walk after our own devices , and we will each one do [according to ] the stubbornness of his evil heart . * Therefore thus saith Jehovah : Ask ye now among the nations , Who hath heard such things ? The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing . * Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field ? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up ? * For my people hath forgotten me : they burn incense to vanity ; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways , the ancient paths , to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up ; * to make their land an astonishment , a perpetual hissing : every one that passeth by shall be astonished , and shake his head . * As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy ; I will shew them the back , and not the face , in the day of their calamity . * And they said , Come , and let us devise devices against Jeremiah ; for law shall not perish from the priest , nor counsel from the wise , nor word from the prophet . Come and let us smite him with the tongue , and let us not give heed to any of his words . * Jehovah , give heed to me , and listen to the voice of those that contend with me .

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