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Jeremiah 18 📜 📕 ↷
Potter and the Clay
1 The word that was made to Jeremy from our Lord, saying:📜💬📚
2 Arise and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.📜💬📚
3 And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he made a work upon the wheel.📜💬📚
4 And the vessel was broken which he made of clay with his hands: and turning he made it an other vessel, as it pleased in his eyes to make it.📜💬📚
5 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚
6 Why, shall I not be able to do unto you, as this potter, o house of Israel? Behold, saith our Lord, as clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, o house of Israel.📜💬📚
7 I will suddenly speak against nation, and against kingdom, to root out, and destroy, and waste it.📜💬📚
8 If that nation shall repent them of their evil, against whom I have spoken: I also will repent me of the evil, that I have thought to do to it.📜💬📚
9 And I will suddenly speak of nation and of kingdom, to build and plant it.📜💬📚
10 If it shall do evil in mine eyes, that it hear not my voice: I will repent me of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.📜💬📚
11 Now therefore tell the man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith our Lord: Behold I forge evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man return from his evil way, and direct ye your ways and your studies.📜💬📚
12 Who said: We are desperate: for we will go after our cogitations, and we will do every one the perversity of his evil heart.📜💬📚
13 Therefore thus saith our Lord: Ask the Nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done exceedingly?📜💬📚
14 Why shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? Or can the cold waters gushing forth and running down, be drawn out?📜💬📚
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in the paths of the world, that they might walk by them in a way not trodden:📜💬📚
16 that their land might be made into desolation, and into an everlasting hiss: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, & wag his head.📜💬📚
17 As the burning wind will I disperse them before the enemy: the back, and not the face will I shew them in the day of their perdition.📜💬📚
Another Plot against Jeremiah
18 And they said: Come, and let us find devises against Jeremy: for the law shall not perish from the Priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the Prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, & let us not attend to all his words.📜💬📚
19 Attend o Lord unto me, and hear the voice of mine adversaries.📜💬📚
20 Why, is evil rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in the sight, to speak good for them, and to return away their indignation from them.📜💬📚
21 Therefore give their children into famine, and lead them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be made without children, and widows: and let the husbands be killed by death: let their young men be pierced through with the sword in battle.📜💬📚
22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses, for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me, and have hid snares for my feet.📜💬📚
23 But thou o Lord knowest all their counsel against me unto death: be not propitious to their iniquity, and let not their sin be clean put out from thy face: let them be made falling in thy sight, in the time of thy fury deal with them.📜💬📚
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