Jeremiah:18-21
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
and go down to the potters house ,
and there I will cause thee to hear my words .
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Then I went down to the potters house ,
and ,
behold ,
he wrought a work on the wheels .
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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 .
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Then the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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O house of Israel Yisra #
el #,
cannot I do with you as this potter ?
saith the LORD .
Behold ,
as the clay is in the potters hand ,
so are ye in mine hand ,
O house of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to pluck up ,
and to pull down ,
and to destroy it ;
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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 .
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And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to build and to plant it ;
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 sha #
aruwrah #.
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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 ?
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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 ;
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To make their land desolate ,
and a perpetual hissing sh @;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished ,
and wag his head ro #
sh #.
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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 .
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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 .
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Give heed to me ,
O LORD ,
and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me .
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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 .
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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine ra #
ab #,
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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Go and get a potters earthen bottle ,
and take of the ancients of the people ,
and of the ancients of the priests ;
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And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
which is by the entry of the east gate sha #
ar #,
and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee ,
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And say ,
Hear ye the word of the LORD ,
O kings of Judah ,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem ;
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will bring evil upon this place ,
the which whosoever heareth ,
his ears shall tingle .
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Because they have forsaken me ,
and have estranged this place ,
and have burned incense in it unto other gods ,
whom neither they nor their fathers have known ,
nor the kings of Judah ,
and have filled this place with the blood of innocents ;
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They have built also the high places of Baal Ba #
al #,
to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal Ba #
al #,
which I commanded not ,
nor spake it ,
neither came it into my mind :
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that this place shall no more be called Tophet ,
nor The valley of the son of Hinnom ,
but The valley of slaughter .
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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 hands of them that seek their lives :
and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven ,
and for the beasts of the earth .
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And I will make this city desolate ,
and an hissing ;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof .
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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 friend in the siege and straitness ,
wherewith their enemies ,
and they that seek their lives ,
shall straiten them .
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Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee ,
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And shalt say unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Even so will I break this people and this city ,
as one breaketh a potters vessel ,
that cannot be made whole again :
and they shall bury them in Tophet ,
till there be no place to bury .
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Thus will I do unto this place ,
saith the LORD ,
and to the inhabitants thereof ,
and even make this city as Tophet :
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And the houses of Jerusalem ,
and the houses of the kings of Judah ,
shall be defiled as the place of Tophet ,
because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven ,
and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods .
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Then came Jeremiah from Tophet ,
whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy ;
and he stood in the court of the LORDS house ;
and said to all the people ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it ,
because they have hardened their necks ,
that they might not hear my words .
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Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest ,
who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD ,
heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things .
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Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet ,
and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin ,
which was by the house of the LORD .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks .
Then said Jeremiah unto him ,
The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur ,
but Magormissabib Magowr mic-Cabiyb #.
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For thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will make thee a terror to thyself ,
and to all thy friends :
and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies ,
and thine eyes shall behold it :
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall carry them captive into Babylon ,
and shall slay them with the sword .
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Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city ,
and all the labours thereof ,
and all the precious things thereof ,
and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies ,
which shall spoil them ,
and take them ,
and carry them to Babylon .
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And thou ,
Pashur ,
and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity :
and thou shalt come to Babylon ,
and there thou shalt die ,
and shalt be buried there ,
thou ,
and all thy friends ,
to whom thou hast prophesied lies .
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O LORD ,
thou hast deceived me ,
and I was deceived :
thou art stronger than I ,
and hast prevailed :
I am in derision daily ,
every one mocketh me .
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For since I spake ,
I cried out ,
I cried violence and spoil ;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me ,
and a derision ,
daily .
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Then I said ,
I will not make mention of him ,
nor speak any more in his name .
But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones ,
and I was weary with forbearing ,
and I could not stay .
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For I heard the defaming of many ,
fear on every side .
Report ,
say they ,
and we will report it .
All my familiars #
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saying ,
Peradventure he will be enticed ,
and we shall prevail against him ,
and we shall take our revenge on him .
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But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one :
therefore my persecutors shall stumble ,
and they shall not prevail :
they shall be greatly ashamed ;
for they shall not prosper :
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten .
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But ,
O LORD of hosts ,
that triest the righteous ,
and seest the reins and the heart ,
let me see thy vengeance on them :
for unto thee have I opened my cause .
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Sing unto the LORD ,
praise ye the LORD :
for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers .
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Cursed be the day wherein I was born :
let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed .
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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father ,
saying ,
A man child is born unto thee ;
making him very glad .
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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew ,
and repented not :
and let him hear the cry in the morning ,
and the shouting at noontide #
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Because he slew me not from the womb ;
or that my mother might have been my grave ,
and her womb to be always great with me .
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow ,
that my days should be consumed with shame ?
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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah ,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest ,
saying ,
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Enquire ,
I pray thee ,
of the LORD for us b @#
ad #;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us ;
if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works ,
that he may go up from us .
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Then said Jeremiah unto them ,
Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah :
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Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands ,
wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon ,
and against the Chaldeans ,
which besiege you without the walls ,
and I will assemble them into the midst of this city .
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And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm ,
even in anger ,
and in fury ,
and in great wrath .
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And I will smite the inhabitants of this city ,
both man and beast :
they shall die of a great pestilence .
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And afterward ,
saith the LORD ,
I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah ,
and his servants ,
and the people ,
and such as are left in this city from the pestilence ,
from the sword ,
and from the famine ra #
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into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
and into the hand of their enemies ,
and into the hand of those that seek their life :
and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword ;
he shall not spare them ,
neither have pity ,
nor have mercy .
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And unto this people thou shalt say ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I set before you the way of life ,
and the way of death .
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He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword ,
and by the famine ra #
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and by the pestilence :
but he that goeth out ,
and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you ,
he shall live (
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and his life shall be unto him for a prey .
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For I have set my face against this city for evil ,
and not for good ,
saith the LORD :
it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall burn it with fire .
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And touching the house of the king of Judah ,
say ,
Hear ye the word of the LORD ;
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O house of David ,
thus saith the LORD ;
Execute judgment in the morning ,
and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor ,
lest my fury go out like fire ,
and burn that none can quench it ,
because of the evil of your doings ma #
alal #.
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Behold ,
I am against thee ,
O inhabitant of the valley ,
and rock of the plain ,
saith the LORD ;
which say ,
Who shall come down against us ?
or who shall enter into our habitations m @#
ownah #?
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But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings ma #
alal #,
saith the LORD :
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof ,
and it shall devour all things round about it .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Go down to the house of the king of Judah ,
and speak there this word ,