Jeremiah:18:1-19

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* The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying , * Arise , and go down to the potter ’s house , and there will I let thee hear my words . * Then went I down to the potter ’s house , and , behold , he was doing work on the wheels . * 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 . * Then came the word of the Lord to me , saying , * 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 potter ’s hand , so are ye in my hand , O house of Israel . * At one instant I speak concerning a nation , and concerning a kingdom , to root out , and to pull down , and to destroy it ; * But should that nation , against whom I have spoken , return from their wrong –doing : then will I bethink me of the evil that I had thought to do unto them . * And at one instant I speak concerning a nation , and concerning a kingdom , to build and to plant it ; * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Doth the snow of Lebanon ever quit the rock of the field ? or do the far –coming , cold , flowing waters ever fail ? * 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 ? * To make their land desolate , a perpetual derision : every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished , and shake his head . * 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 . * 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 . * Listen to me , O Lord , and hearken to the voice of those that contend with me .

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