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The word which came to Jeremiah from the 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 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 ,
cannot I do with you as this potter ?
saith the LORD .
Behold ,
as the clay is in the potter '
s hand ,
so are ye in mine hand ,
O house of Israel .
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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 .
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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 ;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished ,
and wag his head .
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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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