Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
This
is
the word that
came to Jeremiah from the LORD :
The word which
came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying,
“
Go down at
once
to the potter’s
house, and there I will reveal
My
message
to you
. ”
Arise,
and
go down to the potter's
house, and there I will cause
thee
to hear
my
words
.
So
I went down to the potter’s
house and saw
him
working
at
the wheel
.
Then
I went down to the potter's
house ,
and ,
behold,
he
wrought
a
work
on
the wheels
.
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
.
And
the vessel that he made
of
clay was
marred
in the
hand of
the
potter:
so he made
it again
another vessel, as seemed good
to the
potter
to
make
it
.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
“
O house of Israel, declares
the
LORD,
can
I not
treat
you as this potter treats
his
clay
? Just
like
clay in the potter’s
hand, so are you
in My
hand, O house of Israel.
O house of Israel, cannot
I do
with
you as this potter? saith
the
LORD.
Behold,
as
the
clay is
in the potter's
hand, so are ye
in mine
hand, O house of Israel.
At any
time
I might
announce
that
a nation or
kingdom will
be
uprooted
, torn
down, and destroyed.
At what
instant
I shall
speak
concerning
a nation ,
and
concerning
a
kingdom, to
pluck
up,
and
to
pull
down, and to
destroy
it;
But
if that nation I warned
turns
from its
evil, then
I will relent
of the disaster
I had
planned
to bring
.
If that nation ,
against
whom
I have
pronounced,
turn
from their
evil, I will repent
of the evil
that
I thought
to do
unto
them
.
And if
at another
time
I
announce
that
I will
build
up
and
establish
a nation or
kingdom,
And at what
instant
I shall
speak
concerning
a nation ,
and
concerning
a
kingdom, to
build
and
to
plant
it;
and
if it does
evil in My sight and
does
not listen
to
My voice, then I will relent
of the good I had
intended
for
it
.
If it do
evil in my sight ,
that
it
obey
not my voice, then I will repent
of the good ,
wherewith
I said
I
would
benefit
them
.
Now therefore, tell
the men of Judah and the residents
of Jerusalem that
this
is
what
the LORD says:
‘
Behold, I am
planning
a
disaster
for
you and devising
a plan
against you .
Turn
now ,
each
of
you,
from your
evil ways
, and correct
your ways and deeds
. ’
Now therefore go
to
, speak
to
the men of Judah ,
and to
the inhabitants
of Jerusalem ,
saying,
Thus
saith
the LORD ;
Behold, I frame
evil
against
you ,
and devise
a device
against you :
return
ye
now every
one
from his
evil way
, and make
your ways and your
doings
good
.
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. ’”
And
they said
, There
is no
hope:
but
we will walk
after
our own devices
, and we
will every
one
do
the imagination
of his evil heart.
Therefore this
is
what
the LORD says:
“Inquire
among the nations:
Who has
ever
heard things like
these?
Virgin Israel has
done a most
terrible
thing.
Therefore thus
saith
the LORD ;
Ask
ye
now
among the heathen,
who hath
heard such
things :
the
virgin of
Israel hath
done a very
horrible
thing.
Does
the snow of Lebanon ever
leave
its
rocky
slopes
? Or do
its
cool
waters
flowing from a
distance
ever
run
dry
?
Will
a
man
leave
the snow of Lebanon which
cometh
from
the
rock
of
the
field
? or shall
the
cold
flowing waters
that
come
from another
place
be
forsaken
?
Yet
My people have
forgotten Me .
They burn
incense to worthless
idols
that
make
them stumble in their ways ,
leaving
the ancient roads
to walk on
rutted
bypaths
instead
of
on
the
highway.
Because
my people hath
forgotten me ,
they have
burned
incense to vanity,
and
they
have
caused
them to
stumble in their ways from
the ancient paths,
to walk in
paths,
in
a
way
not
cast
up;
They
have
made
their land a
desolation
, a perpetual object
of
scorn
; all
who
pass
by
will
be appalled
and shake
their
heads
.
To
make
their land desolate
, and
a perpetual hissing
; every
one
that
passeth
thereby
shall
be astonished,
and wag
his
head
.
I will scatter them before the enemy like
the
east
wind.
I will show
them My
back and not My
face in the day of their calamity. ”
I will scatter them as
with
an
east
wind
before the enemy ;
I will shew
them the
back ,
and not the
face ,
in the day of their calamity.
Then some
said, “
Come ,
let us make
plans
against Jeremiah ,
for the law will
never
be
lost
to
the priest, nor counsel to
the wise, nor an
oracle
to
the prophet. Come, let us denounce
him and pay
no
heed to any of his words. ”
Then said they
, Come and
let us devise
devices
against Jeremiah ;
for the law shall
not
perish
from
the priest, nor counsel from
the wise, nor the word
from
the
prophet. Come, and
let us smite
him with
the
tongue,
and let
us
not
give
heed to any of his words.
Attend
to me, O LORD. Hear
what
my
accusers
are
saying!
Give
heed
to me, O LORD ,
and
hearken
to
the
voice
of
them
that
contend
with
me
.
Should
good
be
repaid
with
evil? Yet
they have dug
a pit for me
. Remember how
I stood before You
to speak good on
their
behalf
, to turn Your
wrath from them.
Shall
evil be
recompensed
for
good
? for
they have digged
a pit for my
soul
. Remember that
I stood before thee
to speak good for
them
, and
to turn away
thy
wrath from them.
Therefore ,
hand
their children over
to famine ;
pour out the power
of the sword upon
them.
Let their wives become
childless
and widowed
; let their husbands
be slain
by
disease,
their young men struck
down
by the sword in battle.
Therefore deliver
up
their children to the
famine ,
and
pour out their
blood
by
the force
of the sword ;
and
let their wives be
bereaved
of
their
children,
and be
widows
; and
let their men
be put
to
death;
let
their young men be
slain
by the sword in battle.
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You
suddenly
bring raiders
against
them ,
for they have dug
a pit to capture
me and have
hidden
snares for my feet.
Let a cry be heard from their houses ,
when thou
shalt
bring a
troop
suddenly
upon
them :
for they have digged
a pit to take
me ,
and hid
snares for my feet.
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.
Yet
, LORD, thou
knowest
all their counsel
against me to
slay
me:
forgive
not their iniquity,
neither
blot out their sin from thy
sight ,
but
let them be overthrown before thee
; deal thus
with them in the time of thine
anger.
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