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| Jeremiah 18:1 | The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, | The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, |
| Jeremiah 18:2 | Rise, and thou hast gone down [to] the potter`s house, and there I cause thee to hear My words; | Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears. |
| Jeremiah 18:3 | and I go down [to] the potter`s house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones, | Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones. |
| Jeremiah 18:4 | and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. | And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it. |
| Jeremiah 18:5 | And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying: | Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
| Jeremiah 18:6 | As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So [are] ye in My hand, O house of Israel. | O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel. |
| Jeremiah 18:7 | The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy, | Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; |
| Jeremiah 18:8 | And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it. | If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed. |
| Jeremiah 18:9 | And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant, | And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it; |
| Jeremiah 18:10 | And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it. | If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed. |
| Jeremiah 18:11 | And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings. | Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better. |
| Jeremiah 18:12 | And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do. | But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do. |
| Jeremiah 18:13 | Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Ask, I pray you, among the nations, Who hath heard like these? A very horrible thing hath the virgin of Israel done. | So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing. |
| Jeremiah 18:14 | Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow? | Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry? |
| Jeremiah 18:15 | But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways paths of old, To walk in paths a way not raised up, | For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up; |
| Jeremiah 18:16 | To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head. | Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head. |
| Jeremiah 18:17 | As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.` | I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall. |
| Jeremiah 18:18 | And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words. | Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says. |
| Jeremiah 18:19 | Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me. | Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me. |
| Jeremiah 18:20 | Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them. | Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them. |
| Jeremiah 18:21 | Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle, | For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight. |
| Jeremiah 18:22 | A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet. | Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly. |
| Jeremiah 18:23 | And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me [is] for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them! | But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath. |
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