Jeremiah 18:1

Bishop's Bible

This is another communication that God had with Ieremie, saying:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Hebrew Names Version
The word which came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,

King James Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying,

English Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New Century Version
This is the word the Lord spoke to Jeremiah:

Amplified Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

World English Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The worde which came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh saying,

Berean Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me,

Complete Jewish Bible
This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai :

Darby Translation
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

George Lamsa Translation
THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying.

Good News Translation
The Lord said to me,

Lexham English Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Literal Translation
The Word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is another communicacion, that God had with Ieremy, sayenge:

American Standard Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Bible in Basic English
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The word which came to Ieremiah from ye Lord saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The word that came from the Lord to

English Revised Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word that was maad of the Lord to Jeremye,

Update Bible Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord said to Jeremiah:

New King James Version
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

New Living Translation
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,

New Life Bible
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying,

New Revised Standard
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The word that came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Young's Literal Translation
The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

THE MESSAGE
God told Jeremiah, "Up on your feet! Go to the potter's house. When you get there, I'll tell you what I have to say."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ This is another communication that God had with Ieremie, saying: ² Arise, and go downe into the potters house, & there shal I tell thee more of my mynde, ³ Nowe when I came to the potters house, I founde hym makyng his worke vpon a wheele. ⁴ The vessell that the potter made of clay, brake among his handes: So he began a newe, and made another vessell accordyng to his mynde. ⁵ Then sayde the Lorde thus vnto me: ⁶ May not I do with you as this potter doth O ye house of Israel saith the Lorde? Beholde ye house of Israel, ye are in my hande, euen as the clay is in the potters hande. ⁷ When I take in hande to roote out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kyngdome: ⁸ If that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuised, conuert from their wickednesse, I repent of the plague that I deuised to bryng vpon them. ⁹ Agayne, when I take in hande to builde or to plant a people or a kyngdome: ¹⁰ If the same people do euyll before me and heare not my voyce, I repent of the good that I haue deuised for them.

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Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:2 - General Isaiah 29:16 - as the potter's

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.

Genesis 15:1
After these thynges, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying: feare not Abram I am thy shielde [and] thy exceedyng great rewarde.

Genesis 17:22
And he left of talkyng with hym, and departed vp from Abraham.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.

Genesis 18:3
And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt.

Genesis 26:2
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym, and sayde: Go not downe into Egypt, [but] abyde in the lande whiche I shall shewe vnto thee.

Genesis 48:3
And Iacob sayd vnto Ioseph: God almyghtie appeared vnto me at Luz in the lande of Chanaan, and blessed me, and sayde vnto me:

Exodus 4:1
Moyses aunswered, and said: See, they wyll not beleue me, nor harken vnto my voyce: but wyll saye, The Lorde hath not appeared vnto thee.

2 Chronicles 1:7
And the same night did God appeare vnto Solomon, and said vnto him: Aske what I shall geue thee.

Acts 7:2
And he said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glorie appeared vnto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying. The word of prophecy, as the Targum: this is a distinct prophecy from the former, though it may be connected with it; it referring to the destruction threatened in the latter part of the preceding chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the first prophecy of the series Jeremiah 18:0, the fate of Jerusalem was still undetermined; a long line of kings might yet reign there in splendor, and the city be inhabited forever. This was possible only so long as it was still undecided whether Josiah’s efforts would end in a national reformation or not, and before Jehoiakim threw the weight of the kingly office into the opposite balance. In the present prophecy mercy is still offered to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but they reject it Jeremiah 18:11-12. They have made their final choice: and thereupon follows the third prophecy of “the broken vessel” Jeremiah 19:1-15 in which the utter overthrow of city and kingdom is foretold. We should thus place this prophecy of the potter very early in the reign of Jehoiakim; and that of the broken vessel at the commencement of his fourth year. This internal evidence is confirmed by external proof.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVIII

The type of the potter's vessel, and its signification, 1-10.

The inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem exhorted to repentance,

11;

but on their refusal, (which is represented to be as unnatural

as if a man should prefer the snowy Lebanon or barren rock to a

fruitful plain, or other waters to the cool stream of the

fountain,) their destruction is predicted, 12-17.

In consequence of these plain reproofs and warnings of

Jeremiah, a conspiracy is formed against him, 18.

This leads him to appeal to God for his integrity, 19, 20;

who puts a most dreadful curse in the mouth of his prophet,

strongly indicative of the terrible fate of his enemies, 21-23.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVIII

Verse Jeremiah 18:1. The word which came to Jeremiah — This discourse is supposed to have been delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim, probably within the first three years.