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Passage Lookup: Jeremiah 18:1-17

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Jeremiah 18:1
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The word that came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying:
Jeremiah 18:2
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Arise and go down to the house of the potter, - and, there, will I cause thee to hear my words.
Jeremiah 18:3
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So I went down, to the house of the potter, - and there he was! making a piece of work on the wheels,
Jeremiah 18:4
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Then was marred, the vessel that he was making, while yet it was clay in the hand of the potter, - so he turned and made of it another vessel, as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5
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Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Jeremiah 18:6
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Like this potter, can I not deal with you O house of Israel? Demandeth Yahweh: Lo! as clay in the hand of the potter, So, are, ye, in my hand O house of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:7
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The moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, - to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;
Jeremiah 18:8
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and that nation return from its wickedness against whom I have spoken, then will I repent concerning the calamity which I had devised to bring upon it.
Jeremiah 18:9
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And, the moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, - to build and to plant;
Jeremiah 18:10
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and it commit wickedness in mine eyes, in not hearkening unto my voice, then will I repent concerning the good wherewith I had said I would do it good.
Jeremiah 18:11
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Now, therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the men of Judah and concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, Thus, saith Yahweh, - Lo! I am fashioning against you calamity, and devising against you, a device, - Return I pray you every man from his wicked way, And amend your ways and your doings.
Jeremiah 18:12
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And, since they will say, Hopeless! For after our own devices, will we walk, And, very one, the stubbornness of his own wicked heart, will we do!
Jeremiah 18:13
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Therefore, Thus saith Yahweh, Ask I pray you among the nations, - Who hath heard such things as these? A very horrible thing, hath, the virgin, Israel done!
Jeremiah 18:14
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Shall the snow of Lebanon, fall from the rock of the field? Or shall waters from afar, deep, overflowing, be dried up?
Jeremiah 18:15
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Yet my people have forgotten me, Unto vanity, have they been burning incense; And it hath caused them to stumble In their ways The roads of age-past times, To walk in by-paths - A way not cast up.
Jeremiah 18:16
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To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times, - Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.
Jeremiah 18:17
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Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy, - The back and not the face, will I let them see in the day of their distress.
 
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