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But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to inflict.

But they will reply, 'It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

But Jeremiah answered, "You are to tell Zedekiah the following:

Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live and retain his life like a spoil of war.

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.'"

For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: "You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will certainly turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: 'He will never return,

but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.'"

"But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression."

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and evil deeds."

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain? declares the LORD.

But no longer refer to the oracle of the LORD, for each man's word becomes the oracle, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.

But if you claim, 'This is the oracle of the LORD,' then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, 'This is the oracle of the LORD,' and I specifically told you not to make this claim,

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.